V.

_Vade_, 169. Used contemporarily as fade, but generally as a strengthened or more emphatic form, as shown here by “utterly wither”.

_Valure_, 130. Valour.

_Virtutes._ Virtues, _i.e._, the order of angels so called. Pl. of Lat. _virtus_.

_Void_ = Avoid, and so Trevisa, 1397.

W.

_Wag_, 324. Probably used in an ill sense, as a chatterer who makes himself conspicuous by his interference.

_Wax_, 249. To increase and thence to grow, and to grow or become, whether the growth be increase or not.

_Wealth_, _A_ iii. Weal.

_Wheeking_, 301. An onomatopæic word.

_Where_, 429. Whether.

_Whereas_, 419. Whereat, at which.

_Whitmeats_, 281. Milk-whitepots, custards, cheese-cakes, butter, cheese (Bailey). In fact, any thing or any dish made of milk. _Lactucaria_ (Th. Cooper, Holyokes Rider).

_Wist, had I_, 374. See note.

_Witch._ Used by Scot and others for both wizards and witches, though the former word was known in English in 1582 (_Witches at St. Osees_, by W. W.). So used till at least 1670.

_Witchmonger._ (_a_) Those who dealt with witches, as with wise women. (_b_) Those who sought them out for punishment.

_Wreath_, 225. Translation of Lat. _vertere_, to wrest or twist violently.

_Wrote_, 199. Wrought.