Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable/W
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THE
DICTIONARY
OF
PHRASE AND FABLE.
Chapters (not listed in original)
- Wabun
- Wabung Annung
- Wade
- Wade's Boat
- Wadham College
- Wadman
- Wag Beards
- Wages
- Wages of Sin
- Wagoner
- Wahabites
- Waifs and Strays
- Waistcoat
- Waiters upon Providence
- Waits
- Wake
- “Waking a Witch.”
- Walbrook Ward
- Walcheren Expedition
- Waldemar's Way
- Waldenses
- Waldo
- Wales
- Walk
- Walk Chalks
- Walk Spanish
- Walk not in the Public Ways
- Walk the Plank
- Walk through One's Part
- Walker
- Walker's Bus
- Walking Gentleman
- Walking Sword
- Walkyries
- Wall
- Wall
- Wall-eyed
- Walls have Ears
- Wallace's Larder
- Wallflower
- Walloons
- Wallop
- Wallsend Coals
- Walnut
- Walnut Tree
- Walpurgis Night
- Walston
- Walter Multon
- Waltham Blacks
- Walton
- Walton Bridle
- Wamba
- Wan means thin
- Wand
- Wandering Jew
- Wandering Willie or Willie Steenson
- Wandering Wood
- Wans Dyke
- Want or Went
- Wants
- Wantley
- Wapentake
- Wapping Great
- War of the Meal-sacks
- War of the Roses
- Ward
- Ward
- Ward Money, Ward-penny, or Wardage
- Warden-pie
- Ware
- Warlock
- Warm Reception
- Warm as a Bat
- Warming-pan
- Warming-pan
- Warning Stone
- Warp
- Warp and Weft, or Woof
- Warrior Queen
- Warwick
- Warwick Lane
- Warwolf
- Washed Out
- Washing
- Washington of Columbia
- Wassail
- Wassailers
- Wastlers
- Wat
- Wat's Dyke
- Watch Night
- Watch on Board Ship
- Watchet
- Water
- Water
- Water
- Water-gall
- Water-hole
- Water-logged
- Water-Poet
- Water-sky
- Water Stock
- Water of Jealousy
- Water Tasting like Wine
- Waters
- Waterloo Cup
- Waterworks
- Watling Street
- Watteau
- Wave
- Wax-bond End
- Way-bit
- Ways and Means
- Wayfaring Tree
- Wayland
- Wayland Smith's Cave
- Wayland Wood
- Wayleaves
- Wayzgoose
- We
- We Three
- We Left Our Country for Our Country's Good
- Weak as Water
- Weak-kneed Christian or Politician
- Weapon Salve
- Wear
- Weasel
- Weather Breeder
- Weather-cock
- Weather-eye
- Weather-gage
- Weather-glass
- Web of Life
- Wed
- Wedding Anniversaries
- Wedding Finger
- Wedding Knives
- Wednesday
- Weed of Worcester
- Weeds
- Weeping Brides
- Weeping Cross
- Weeping Philosopher
- Weeping Saint
- Weigh Anchor
- Weighed in the Balance, and found Wanting
- Weight
- Weight-for-age Race
- Weissnichtwo
- Welcher
- Weld or Wold
- Well Begun is Half Done
- Well-beloved
- Well-founded Doctor
- Well of English Undefiled
- Well of St. Keyne
- Well of Samaria
- Well of Wisdom
- Wells
- Weller
- Wellington
- Welsh Ambassador
- Welsh Main
- Welsh Mortgage
- Welsh Rabbit
- Welsher
- Wench
- Werner
- Werther
- Werwolf
- Wesleyan
- Wessex, or West Saxon Kingdom
- Westmoreland
- Wet
- Wet-bob and Dry-bob
- Wet Finger
- Wetherell
- Wexford Bridge Massacre
- Weyd-monat
- Whale
- Whale
- Whalebone
- Wharncliffe
- Wharton
- What we Gave we Have, What we Spent we Had, What we Had we Lost
- What's What
- Whately
- Wheal
- Wheatear
- Wheel
- Wheel of Fortune
- Whelps
- Whetstone
- Whetstone of Witte
- Whig
- Whiggism
- Whip
- Whip
- Whip-dog Day
- Whip with Six Strings
- Whipping Boy
- Whiskers
- Whisky
- Whisky-drinker
- Whist
- Whistle
- Whistle
- Whistle Down the Wind
- Whistle for the Wind
- White
- White Bird
- White Brethren or White-clad Brethren
- White Caps
- White Caps
- White Caps
- White-coat
- White Cockade
- White Company
- White Czar
- White Elephant
- White Feather
- White Friars
- White Harvest
- White Hat
- White Horse
- White Horses
- White House
- White Ladies
- White Lies
- White Moments of Life
- White Moon
- White Night
- White Poplar
- White Rose
- White Sheep
- White Squall
- White Stone
- White Stone
- White Surrey
- White Tincture
- White Water-lotus
- White Widow
- White Witch
- White as Driven Snow
- White in the Eye
- Whitebait Dinner
- Whiteboys
- Whitehall
- Whitewashed
- Whit-leather
- Whitsunday
- Whittington
- Whittle
- Whittle Down
- Whitworth Gun
- Whole Duty of Man
- Whole Gale
- Whom the Gods Love Die Young
- Wick, Wicked
- Wicked Bible
- Wicked Prayer Book
- Wicked Weed
- Wicket-gate
- Wicliffe
- Wide-awake
- Widenostrils
- Widow
- Widow
- Widow Bird
- Widow's Cap
- Widow's Piano
- Widow's Port
- Wieland
- Wife
- Wig
- Wig
- Wig
- Wight
- Wigwam
- Wild
- Wild Boar
- Wild Boy of Hamelin
- Wild Children
- Wild-goose Chase
- Wild Huntsman
- Wild Oats
- Wild Women
- Wild Women
- Wild as a March Hare
- Wilde
- Wile away Time
- Wilfrid
- Wilhelm Meister
- Will not when They may
- William
- William L
- Willie-Wastle
- Willow
- Willow Garland
- Willow Pattern
- Willy-nilly
- Wilmington
- Wilt or Welk
- Wiltshire
- Winchester
- Wind Egg
- Winds
- Windfall
- Windmills
- Windmill Street
- Window.
- Wine
- Wine
- Wine-month.
- Wine Mingled with Myrrh
- Wintrith
- Wing, Wings
- Wings of Azrael
- Winged Rooks
- Winifred
- Winkle
- Wint-monath
- Winter, Summer
- Winter's Tale
- Wipple-tree or Whipultre
- Wisdom-tooth
- Wisdom of Many and the Wit of One
- Wise
- Wise as a Serpent
- Wise as Solomon
- Wise as the Mayor of Banbury
- Wise as the Women of Mungret
- Wise Men or Wise Women
- Wise Men of Greece
- Wise Men of the East
- Wise Men of Gotham
- Wiseacre
- Wisest Man of Greece
- Wish-wash
- Wishy-washy
- Wishart
- Wishing-bone
- Wishing-cap
- Wishing-coat
- Wishing-rod
- Wisp
- Wisp of Straw
- Wit
- Wits
- Witch
- Witch-finder
- Witch Hazel
- Witch of Endor
- Witch's Bridle
- Witches' Sabbath
- Witchcraft
- Witenagemot
- Witham
- Withe
- Withers of a Horse
- Within the Pale
- Witney
- Wittington
- Witwold
- Wives of Literary Men
- Wo
- Woo or Wooe
- Woosh
- Woo-tee Dynasty
- Woden
- Woe to Thee, O Land
- Woful
- Wokey
- Wolf
- Wolf
- Wolf
- Wolf Men
- Wolf-month or Wolf-monath
- Wolfs-bane
- Wolves
- Wonder
- Wonder-worker
- Wood
- Wood
- Wood's Halfpence
- Woodbind
- Woodbine
- Woodcock
- Wooden Horse
- Wooden Horse
- Wooden Horse of Troy
- Wooden Mare
- Wooden Spoon
- Wooden Sword
- Wooden Wall
- Wooden Wedge
- Woodfall
- Woodwardian Professor
- Wool
- Wool-gathering
- Woollen
- Woolsack
- Woolwich Infant
- Worcester
- Worcester College
- Word
- Word
- Word to the Wise
- Words
- Working on the Dead Horse
- World
- World
- Worm
- Worms
- Wormwood
- Worse than a Crime
- Worship
- Worsted
- Worth
- Worthies
- Wound
- Wraith
- Wrangler
- Wrath's Hole
- Wraxen
- Wright of Norwich
- Write
- Write Like an Angel
- Wrong
- Wrong End of the Stick
- Wrong Side of the Blanket
- Wrong Side of the Cloth
- Wrong Sow by the Ear
- Wrongun
- Wroth Money or Wroth Silver
- Wulstan
- Wunderberg
- Wyn-monath
- Wynd
- Wyoming