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win, winer, winn, winner, winnin, won, wond, wone, wone$t, woned, woner, woner, wones, wonin, wonn, wonne, wonned, wonner, wonnin, wonning, wons, wont,
won [wɔn, wɪn, wʌn]
v. To dwell, live or stay habitually. To accustom oneself to, be reconciled to.
pt. pp. wont
 
wons
v. Dwells, lives.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
wonner: An inhabitant.
wonnin: The chief house on a farm, or that occupied by the tenant as distinguished from those of the cottars.
oo, ooer, ooster, vooer, woo, wooer, wooin, wooster, wou, wuin,
woo [(w)u]
v. To woo.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
wooer: A wooer.
wooin: Wooing.
wooster: A wooer, a suitor.
wormit, wormot, wurmwuid,
wormit [ˈwɔrmət]
n. NEC. MN. The wormwood Artemisia absinthium.
oof, ouf, sea_wolf, sea_wouf, warwoof, warwouf, woof, wouf, wowf, wowff, wulf, wulver,
wouf [(w)uf]
n. The wolf Canis lupus. MN. The angler fish Lophius piscatorius or SEC. grey gurnard Eutrigla gurnardus.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
sea wouf: The wolffish Anarhichas lupus or SN. MN. angler fish Lophius piscatorius.
warwouf: Werewolf.
wulver: A kind of humanoid wolf creature in Shetland folklore.
oon, oun, win$t, wonn$, woun, wound, woundit, wun, wund, wundit, wunnit,
wound [wun(d)]
n. A wound, injury.
v. To wound.
pt. pp. woundit
woof, wouf, wouff, wowf, wowff,
wowf [wʌuf]
adj. Somewhat deranged in one's wits, touched in the head, violently agitated or excited.
wouch, wouf, wouff, wowch, wowf, wowff,
wowff [wʌuf]
also wowch [wʌux]
n. A low-pitched bark.
v. To bark in a suppressed manner.
rack, racked, rackit, reck, vrack, vreck, waith_an_wrack, waith_and_wrack, wrack, wrackit, wraik, wreak, wreck, wreckit,
wrack [(w)rak, (w)rek, MN. vrak]
n. A wreck. A shipwreck or broken ship. Ruin, havoc, destruction. A broken object, something which has been smashed or disintegrated, remnants, fragments, wreckage, driftwood etc. Fresh- or salt-water weed, river or marine algae. Field weeds, vegetable rubbish, any kind of profitless vegetation.
v. To wreck, to break in a physical sense, disable, destroy, ruin. Of a ship: to destroy or be lost by storm etc.
pt. pp. wrackit
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
aesome wracker [ˈeːsʌm-]: A great shot.
black wrack: The serrated wrack Fucus serratus.
button wrack: The knotted wrack Ascophyllum nodosum.
leddy wrack: The bladderwrack Fucus vesiculosus.
waith and wrack: Flotsam and jetsam.
Wrae,
Wrae [(w)reː, MN. vreː]
pn. Wrae (Borders).
vrath, wraith, wrath, wreth,
wraith [(w)reθ]
n. Wrath.
adj. Wroth, angry.

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