WINTER CRICKET. A taylor. WINTER'S DAY. He is like a winter's day, short and dirty. WIPE. A blow, or reproach. I'll give you a wipe on the chops. That story gave him a fine wipe. Also a handkerchief. WIPER. A handkerchief. CANT. WIPER DRAWER. A pickpocket, one who steals handkerchiefs. He drew a broad, narrow, cam, or specked wiper; he picked a pocket of a broad, narrow, cambrick, or coloured handkerchief. TO WIREDRAW. To lengthen out or extend any book, letter, or discourse. WISE. As wise as Waltham's calf, that ran nine miles to suck a bull. WISE MEN OF GOTHAM. Gotham is a village in Nottinghamshire; its magistrates are said to have attempted to hedge in a cuckow; a bush, called the cuckow's bush, is still shewn in support of the tradition. A thousand other ridiculous stories are told of the men of Gotham. WISEACRE. A foolish conceited fellow. WISEACRE'S HALL. Gresham college. WIT. He has as much wit as three folks, two fools and a madman. WITCHES. Silver. Witcher bubber; a silver bowl. Witcher tilter; a silver-hilted sword. Witcher cully; a silversmith. TO WOBBLE. To boil. Pot wobbler; one who boils a pot. WOLF IN THE BREAST. An extraordinary mode of imposition, sometimes practised in the country by strolling women, who have the knack of counterfeiting extreme pain, pretending to have a small animal called a wolf in their breasts, which is continually gnawing them. WOLF IN THE STOMACH. A monstrous or canine appetite. WOOD. In a wood; bewildered, in a maze, in a peck of troubles, puzzled, or at a loss what course to take in any business. To look over the wood; to ascend the pulpit, to preach: I shall look over the wood at St. James's on Sunday next. To look through the wood; to stand in the pillory. Up to the arms in wood; in the pillory. WOOD PECKER. A bystander, who bets whilst another plays. WOODCOCK. A taylor with a long bill. WOODEN HABEAS. A coffin. A man who dies in prison is said to go out with a wooden habeas. He went out with a wooden habeas; i.e. his coffin. WOODEN SPOON. (Cambridge.) The last junior optime. See WRANGLER, OPTIME.