Part 971 (1/2)

1. A twig, S.

_Burns._

2. A wand, a small switch, S.

Dan. _vigre_, vimen; _vig-er_, to be pliant.

WICKET, _s._ The back-door of a barn, Ang.

Belg. _wicket_, portula, Fr. _guichet_.

WIDDEN-DREME, WINDREM, WIDDRIM, _s._ _In a widden-dream_, or _windream_, all of a sudden; also, in a state of confusion, S. B.

_Pop. Ball._

A. S. _woda-dream_, furor, madness.

WIDDERSINNIS, WEDDERSHYNNYS, WIDDERSINS, WIDDERs.h.i.+NS, WITHERs.h.i.+NS, WODERs.h.i.+NS, _adv._ The contrary way, contrary to the course of the sun, S.

_Douglas._

A. S. _wither_, contra, _sunne_, sol; or rather, Teut. _weder-sins_, contrario modo.

WIDDIE, WIDDY, _s._

1. A rope made of twigs of willow; used to denote a halter, S.

_Lyndsay._

2. The term is vulgarly understood in S. as if it denoted the gallows itself.

3. A twig, having several smaller shoots branching out from it; which being plaited together, it is used as a whip, the single grain serving for a handle, Caithn.

Su. G. _widia_, vimen, from _wide_, salix; A. S. _withig_, id.

~Widdifow~, ~Viddiful~, _s._

1. Properly, one who deserves to _fill_ a _widdie_ or halter, S.

_Lyndsay._

2. In pl. equivalent to _brave boys_, in sea language.

_Compl. S._