WORMS. If, on your way to a sick person, you pick up a stone and find no living thing under it, it tells you that the sick person will die, but if you find there an ant or worm, it presages the patient’s recovery. Si visitans ægrum, lapidem inventum per viam attollat, et sub lapide inveniatur vermis se movens, aut formica vivens, faustum omen est, et indicium fore ut æger convalescat, si nihil invenitur res est conclamata et certa mors.--Buchardus, _Drecretorum, lib._ xix. =Warren= (_Widow_), “twice married and twice a widow.” A coquette of 40, aping the airs of a girl; vain, weak, and detestable. Harry Dornton, the banker’s son, is in love with her daughter, Sophia Freelove; but the widow tries to win the young man for herself, by advancing money to pay off his friend’s debts. When the father hears of this he comes to the rescue, returns the money advanced, and enables the son to follow his natural inclinations by marrying the daughter instead of the designing mother. A girlish, old coquette, who would rob her daughter, and leave her husband’s son to rot in a dungeon, that she might marry the first fool she could find.--Holcroft, _The Road to Ruin_, v. 2, (1792). =Wart= (_Thomas_), a poor, feeble, ragged creature, one of the recruits in the army of Sir John Falstaff.--Shakespeare, _2 Henry IV._, act iii. sc. 2 (1598). =Warwick= (_The earl of_), a tragedy by Dr. T. Franklin. The theme is the last days and death of the “king maker” (1767). =Washington of Africa= (_The_). William Wilberforce is so called by Lord Byron. As Washington was the chief instrument in liberating America, so Wilberforce was the chief instigator of slave emancipation. Thou moral Washington of Africa. _Don Juan_, xiv. 82 (1824). =Washington of Colombia=, Simon Bolivar (1785-1831). =Wasky=, Sir Iring’s sword. Right through the head-piece straight The knight Sir Hagan paid, With his resistless Wasky, That sharp and peerless blade. _Nibelungen Lied_, 35 (1210). =Wasp=, in the drama called _Bartholomew Fair_, by Ben Jonson (1574-1637). Benjamin Johnson, an actor [1665-1742], commonly called Ben Johnson, ... seemed to be proud to wear the poet’s name, being particularly great in all that author’s plays that were usually performed, viz., “Wasp,” “Corbaccio,” “Morose,” and “Ananias.”--Chetwood, _History of the Stage_. ⁂ “Corbaccio,” in _The Fox_; “Morose,” in _The Silent Woman_; and “Ananias,” in _The Alchemist_. =Waste Time Utilized.= BAXTER wrote his _Saints’ Everlasting Rest_ on a bed of sickness (1615-1691). BLOOMFIELD composed _The Farmer’s Boy_ in the intervals of shoemaking (1766-1823).