Vocabulary : Wheatbird to Wheedled

Wheatbird : A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
Wheatear : A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail.
Wheaten : Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread.
Wheatsel bird : The male of the chaffinch.
Wheatstone's bridge : See under Bridge.

Wheatstone's rods : Flexible rods the period of vibration of which in two planes at right angles are in some exact ratio to one another. When one end of such a rod is fixed, the free end describes in vibrating the corresponding Lissajous figure. So called because devised by Sir Charles Wheatstone.
Wheatworm : A small nematode worm (Tylenchus tritici) which attacks wheat, advancing through the stem to the grains in the air. ;; A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici) which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm.
Wheder : Whether.
Wheedle : To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax. ;; To grain, or get away, by flattery. ;; To flatter; to coax; to cajole.
Wheedled : of Wheedle

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