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Way, n.
1. That by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes; opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage; road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a way to the mine. “To find the way to heaven.”
I shall him seek by way and eke by street. --Chaucer.
The way seems difficult, and steep to scale. --Milton.
The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance. --Evelyn.
2. Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way.
And whenever the way seemed long,
Or his heart began to fail. --Longfellow.
3. A moving; passage; procession; journey.
I prythee, now, lead the way. --Shak.
4. Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance.
If that way be your walk, you have not far. --Milton.
And let eternal justice take the way. --Dryden.
5. The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan.
My best way is to creep under his gaberdine. --Shak.
By noble ways we conquest will prepare. --Dryden.
What impious ways my wishes took! --Prior.
6. Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas.
7. Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing. “Having lost the way of nobleness.”
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. --Prov. iii. 17.
When men lived in a grander way. --Longfellow.
8. Sphere or scope of observation.
The public ministers that fell in my way. --Sir W. Temple.
9. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have one's way.
10. Naut. (a) Progress; as, a ship has way. (b) pl. The timbers on which a ship is launched.
11. pl. Mach. The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves.
12. Law Right of way. See below.
By the way, in passing; apropos; aside; apart from, though connected with, the main object or subject of discourse.
By way of, for the purpose of; as being; in character of.
Covert way. Fort. See Covered way, under Covered.
In the family way. See under Family.
In the way, so as to meet, fall in with, obstruct, hinder, etc.
In the way with, traveling or going with; meeting or being with; in the presence of.
Milky way. Astron. See Galaxy, 1.
No way, No ways. See Noway, Noways, in the Vocabulary.
On the way, traveling or going; hence, in process; advancing toward completion; as, on the way to this country; on the way to success.
Out of the way. See under Out.
Right of way Law, a right of private passage over another's ground. It may arise either by grant or prescription. It may be attached to a house, entry, gate, well, or city lot, as well as to a country farm. --Kent.
To be under way, or To have way Naut., to be in motion, as when a ship begins to move.
To give way. See under Give.
To go one's way, or To come one's way, to go or come; to depart or come along. --Shak.
To go one's way to proceed in a manner favorable to one; -- of events.
To come one's way to come into one's possession (of objects) or to become available, as an opportunity; as, good things will come your way.
To go the way of all the earth or to go the way of all flesh to die.
To make one's way, to advance in life by one's personal efforts.
To make way. See under Make, v. t.
Ways and means. (a) Methods; resources; facilities. (b) Legislation Means for raising money; resources for revenue.
Way leave, permission to cross, or a right of way across, land; also, rent paid for such right. [Eng]
Way of the cross Eccl., the course taken in visiting in rotation the stations of the cross. See Station, n., 7 (c).
Way of the rounds Fort., a space left for the passage of the rounds between a rampart and the wall of a fortified town.
Way pane, a pane for cartage in irrigated land. See Pane, n., 4. [Prov. Eng.]
Way passenger, a passenger taken up, or set down, at some intermediate place between the principal stations on a line of travel.
Ways of God, his providential government, or his works.
Way station, an intermediate station between principal stations on a line of travel, especially on a railroad.
Way train, a train which stops at the intermediate, or way, stations; an accommodation train.
Way warden, the surveyor of a road.
Syn: -- Street; highway; road.
Usage: -- Way, Street, Highway, Road. Way is generic, denoting any line for passage or conveyance; a highway is literally one raised for the sake of dryness and convenience in traveling; a road is, strictly, a way for horses and carriages; a street is, etymologically, a paved way, as early made in towns and cities; and, hence, the word is distinctively applied to roads or highways in compact settlements.
All keep the broad highway, and take delight
With many rather for to go astray. --Spenser.
There is but one road by which to climb up. --Addison.
When night
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. --Milton.
Fam·i·ly n.; pl. Families
1. The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
2. The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.
The welfare of the family underlies the welfare of society. --H. Spencer.
3. Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.
Go ! and pretend your family is young. --Pope.
4. Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
5. Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
6. A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.
7. Biol. A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In Zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.
Family circle. See under Circle.
Family man. (a) A man who has a family; esp., one who has a wife and children living with him and dependent upon him. (b) A man of domestic habits. “The Jews are generally, when married, most exemplary family men.” --Mayhew.
Family of curves or Family of surfaces Geom., a group of curves or surfaces derived from a single equation.
In a family way, like one belonging to the family. “Why don't we ask him and his ladies to come over in a family way, and dine with some other plain country gentlefolks?” --Thackeray.
In the family way, pregnant. [Colloq. euphemism]
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