_To_ WIP, WYP, _v. a._ To bind round, S.

_Dunbar._

~Wyp~, _s._ A wreath, a garland.

_Douglas._

Moes. G. _waip_, _wipja_, corona.

WYR, _s._ An arrow.

_Barbour._

Fr. _vire_, the arrow called a quarrell; Isl. _aur_, telum, sagitta.

_To_ WYR, _v. a._ To wreathe, to let down by a whirling motion.

_Barbour._

Mod. Sax. _wyr-en_, Fr. _vir-er_, Lat. _gyr-are_.

_To_ WIRK, WYRK, _v. a._

1. To work, to cause to accomplish.

_Douglas._

2. To make, to form.

_Dunbar._

A. S. _wirc-an_, _wyrc-an_, facere.

~Wirk~, ~Werk~, _s._ Work.

_Wallace._

WYROCK, _s._ A sort of hard excrescence.

V. ~Virrok~.

WIRRY-COW, _s._

1. A bugbear, a scarecrow, S.

_Ramsay._

2. The devil, S.

_Ramsay._

From _wirry_, to worry, and _Cow_, q. v.

WIRRY-HEN, _s._ Perhaps, one who swallows up the property of others, as a hen gobbles up what is thrown out.

_Bannatyne P._

_To_ WYRRIE, _v. a._ To strangle.

V. ~Wery~.

WIRSCHIP, _s._

V. ~Worschip~.

WYSAR, _s._ The visor.

V. ~Wesar~.

WISCH, _pret. v._ Washed.

_Houlate._

_To_ WYSE, _v. a._ To incline by caution or art.

V. ~Weise~.

_To_ WISEN, WYSSIN, _v. n._

1. To wither, to become dry and hard, S. p.r.o.n. _wizzen_; A. Bor. id.

_Douglas._

2. To be parched; in consequence of thirst.

_Douglas._

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