victory; _e.g._ Winford, Winslow, Wingrave, Wimborne (the ford, hill, entrenchment, and brook of the victory). [Sidenote: WINKEL (Ger.), WINCEL (A.S.),] a corner; _e.g._ Winceby (corner dwelling); Winchcomb (the corner hollow); Winchelsea (the island or moist land at the corner); Winchendon (corner hill); Winkleigh (corner meadow); Winkelhorst (corner thicket); Winkeldorf (corner village); Winklarn (the waste field at the corner). [Sidenote: WISCH, or OSSICK,] contracted from the Sclav. _hussoki_ (high); _e.g._ Wissek, Weissagh, Wisowice or Wisowitz, Ossiegt, and Ossagh (high village); Wischhrad (high fortress); Wisoki-mazo-wieck (the high middle market-town), in Poland; but in Germany _wisch_ is sometimes a form of _wiese_ (meadow), as in Wischmühle (the meadow mill); Wischhausen (the dwelling in the meadow); Essek, for _Ossick_ (high place), in Sclavonia. [Sidenote: WITHIG (A.S.),] the willow; _e.g._ Witham, Withern (willow dwelling); Withybrook (willow stream); Withridge (willow ridge). [Sidenote: WOH (A.S.),] a turning; _e.g._ Woburn, Wooburn (the bend of the stream); Woking (the turning at the chink or chine). [Sidenote: WOL (Sclav.),] the ox; _e.g._ Wolgast (the oxen’s shed); Wohlau (an enclosure for oxen), a town in Prussia which carries on a great trade in cattle; Wollin (the place of oxen), at the mouth of the R. Oder. [Sidenote: WOLSCHA, or OELZA (Sclav.),] the alder-tree; _e.g._ Wolschau, Wolschen, Wolsching, Wolschinka (the place abounding in alders); the Sclavonic name for the R. Elster is _Wolshinka_ (the river of alders); Oels, in Silesia, on the Oelse (alder-tree stream); Oelsen and Olsenice (the village of alder-trees); Olsnitz (the town on Elster, or alder stream). [Sidenote: WOLV, or WOL,] a prefix sometimes employed with reference to the wolf, as in Wolvesley (the wolves’ island), where a tribute of wolves’ heads was paid annually by the Britons to the Saxons, by order of King Edgar. Sometimes as a contraction for _wold_ (the waste land), as in Wolford, Wolborough, Woldingham, Wooler, and in Woolverton; but it comes often also from a personal name, as in Wolfhamcote, Wulferlow, Wolferton (from Ulp or Wulfhern). [Sidenote: WORTH, or WEORTHING (A.S.),] a farm, manor, or estate, a place warded or protected, A.S. _warian_ (to defend); cognate with the Ger. _warid_ or _werder_; _e.g._ Worthing in Sussex, Worthen in Salop, Worthy and Worting in Hants, Worthington in Lancashire (the farm or manor); Highworth (high manor); Kenilworth (the estate of Kenelm); Bosworth (of Bosa); Edgeworth (the estate on the border); Edgeware, anc. _Edgeworth_, same meaning; Polwarth (the estate on the marshy land), a parish in Berwickshire; Ravenworth (the manor of Hrafen); Rickmansworth (of Rickman); Tamworth (the manor), on R. Tam; Wandsworth, on the R. Wandle; Worksworth (the place near the miner’s works); Chatsworth (the manor in the wood), Celtic _coed_; Hammersmith, corrupt. from _Hermoderworth_ (the manor of Hermode).