WADDLE, v.i.. To return from a rush to judgement.

WADE, v.i.  To explore the depths in the shallows.

WAFER, n.  A dietetic slab.

WAFER THIN, adj.  Diplomatic.

WAFFLE, v.i.  To admire the scenery along two untaken paths.

WAFT, v.i.  To plummet in a press release.

WAG, n.  An admirable wit in an empty room.

WAG, v.i.  To express a canine confidence that that all the things of the world are edible or absorbent.

WAGE, n.  Undercompensation.

WAGER, n.  The house’s reward for the risk of fixing the odds.

WAGES OF SIN, n. An out-of-court settlement.

WAHABI, n.  A Muslim who adheres precisely to the original form of the faith, according to an 18th century tradition.

WAIF, n.  The daughter of two doctors.

WAIL, v.i.  To respond to an injustice, an outrage, a bad roll.

WAIT, v.i.  To plot.

WAIVER, n.  A tacit admission that a specific requirement can’t be explained to either party.

WALKABOUT, n.  In world history the most rational response to colonialism ever.

WALL STREET, p.n.  The world’s center of commerce in all except goods and services.

WEATHER, n.  The factor on which a farmer focuses the greatest energy and attention.

WEDDING CAKE, n.  A rich tort.

I made my wife of corpses' skin

And found true love deep within

She says just what I want to hear

When, breathlessly, she calls me near.

My love to her I represented

With wine of vintage less fermented

And flowers that would make her blush

If the ones she offers were not so lush.

The road we travel, we travel often.

Me on my feet, her in her coffin.

Though the miles we cover aren't many,

She stays with me, my lucky penny.

And when my time on Earth has passed

And finally, I breathe my last.

I have no fear of what's in store.

Making love in her bed as mine before.

Come live with me and be my love,

Here on Earth and below, above.

WEREWOLF, n.  A creature divided between two natures, fictional and toothy, and of the unelected sort.

WINE, n.  A juice fermented to produce airs.  Or heirs.

WISDOM, n.  Delirium in a careful cadence.

The Snowy Egret and The Hunter

Once upon a time, a hunter came upon a snowy egret and asked it's purpose. The egret proudly explained that while it spent most of its time catching crabs and newts, its pure-white plumes were prized everywhere it went. "Sometimes, I like to soar above the cities and towns and see women of fashion with long white plumes in their hats and poets holding my plumes to paper. The poets will be mottled with black ink while my feather stays pure for the poet feels more for the stylus than for style, work or words. My feather over their own feet. Truly, I am blessed among birds. And what is your purpose?"

Moral: Every question contains an answer, and every answer holds a shell.

Two Crows in A Cornfield

Two crows sat in a cornfield one day. "Why are we here?" asked one of the other.

"We are part of a great circle," explained the second crow. "in which a farmer plants her seeds and the fertilizer she spreads leaks into the stream and kills the fish which are taken by rodents who crawl off into the cornfield where we eat them, leaving behind a second fertilizer which nourishes the weeds that drive the farmer into politics and social commentary."

The first crow raised a proud wing to salute the second. "Cursed will be the generation without ecologists."

Moral: It takes an infinity of tangents to make a single globe.

WISE, adj.  Foreign.

WIT, n.  The whiplike, agile and fast-moving feature of the well-developed mind connected to the hubris.  The wit is prominent in dogs who call it wag and prehensile in tree-monkeys who call it grasp.

WITCH, n.  A sorceress responsible for, among other things, men turning into apes; enchantments that cause obsession, indifference or distraction in the victim; the levitation of owls; the nocturnal rituals of cats; and, in many cases, profligate drinking, foolish voting and debt.

WITTICISM, n.  A product of brain and lung more precise than opinion but less so than breath.

WONDER, v.i.  To plan.

WONDER, n.  One of seven exceptional items on various lists.

WONDROUS, adj.  Still standing.

WONK, n.  A student of principle, process, politics and policy.  A stranger to people.

WORLD, n. A united conflict.

WOVEN, adj.  Tightly wound, parallel or perpendicular.  Along the peer.

WRATH, n.  A “hissy” before it has passed.