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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._
3. A romp, S.
~Widdifow~, _adj._ Wrathful, S. A. and O.
_Burns._
_To_ WIDDILL, _v. n._ p.r.o.n. _wuddil_.
1. Generally used in connexion with some other _v._; as, _to widdil and ban_, _to widdil and flyte_, &c., S.
_Montgomerie._
2. To wriggle or waddle, S.
3. _v. a._ To introduce by s.h.i.+fting motion, or (metaph.) by circuitous courses, S.
_Cleland._
Germ. _wedel-n_, caudam mot.i.tare.
~Widdle~, _s._
1. Wriggling motion, S.
2. Metaph. struggle or bustle, S.
_Burns._
WIDDRIM, _s._
V. ~Widdendreme~.
WYDE, _s._ Dress.
V. ~Gide~.
WIDE-GAB, _s._ The fis.h.i.+ng frog, Shetl.
* WIDOW, _s._ A widower, S.
_Rutherford._
WIE, _adj._ Little.
