Wire |
A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel. |
n. |
Wire |
A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire. |
n. |
Wire |
To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors. |
v. t. |
Wire |
To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads. |
v. t. |
Wire |
To snare by means of a wire or wires. |
v. t. |
Wire |
To send (a message) by telegraph. |
v. t. |
Wire |
To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream. |
v. i. |
Wire |
To send a telegraphic message. |
v. i. |
Wire-drawer |
One who draws metal into wire. |
n. |
Wire-heel |
A disease in the feet of a horse or other beast. |
n. |
Wire-puller |
One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who operates by secret means; an intriguer. |
n. |
Wire-pulling |
The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue. |
n. |
Wire-tailed |
Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules. |
a. |
Wonder-worker |
One who performs wonders, or miracles. |
n. |
Worker |
One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass. |
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Worker |
One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White. |
n. |