n. (also wistaria) climbing plant with blue, purple, or white hanging flowers. [wistar, name of an anatomist]

n. = *witchcraft.

v. (past withdrew; past part. Withdrawn) 1 pull or take aside or back.

- discontinue, cancel, retract.

- remove; take away.

- take (money) out of an account.

- retire or move apart.

- (as withdrawn adj.) Abnormally shy and unsociable; mentally detached. [from *with = away]

v. (past and past part. -held) 1 hold back; restrain.

- refuse to give, grant, or allow. [from *with = away]

adj. Derog. Effeminate, unmanly.

v. (also -ise) (-zing or -sing) chase after women; philander. womanizer n.

poet. —adj. Wonderful. —adv. Wonderfully (wondrous kind).

n. Honeysuckle.

n. Game-bird related to the snipe.

n. (often attrib.) Wooded country, woods.