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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Way \Way\, adv [Aphetic form of away.] Away [Obs. or Archaic] --Chaucer. {To do way}, to take away to remove. [Obs.] ``Do way your hands.'' --Chaucer. {To make way with}, to make away with See under {Away}. [Archaic] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Way \Way\, n. [OE. wey, way AS weg; akin to OS., D., OHG., & G. weg, Icel. vegr, Sw v["a]g, Dan. vei, Goth. wigs, L. via, and AS wegan to move L. vehere to carry, Skr. vah. [root]136. Cf {Convex}, {Inveigh}, {Vehicle}, {Vex}, {Via}, {Voyage}, {Wag}, {Wagon}, {Wee}, {Weigh}.] 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.'' --Shak. 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.'' --Sir. P. Sidney. 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. --Jer. Taylor. 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 the way of all the earth}, to die. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Way \Way\, v. t. To go or travel to to go in as a way or path. [Obs.] ``In land not wayed.'' --Wyclif. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Way \Way\, v. i. To move to progress; to go [R.] On a time as they together wayed. --Spenser. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: way n 1: a manner of performance; "a manner of living"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a way of life" [syn: {manner}, {mode}, {style}, {fashion}] 2: how a result is obtained or an end is achieved; "a means of communcation"; "an example is the best agency of instruction"; "the true way to success" [syn: {means}, {agency}] 3: a journey or passage; "they are on the way" 4: the condition of things generally; "that's the way it is" or "I felt the same way" 5: a course of conduct; "the path of virtue"; "we went our separate ways"; "our paths in life led us apart"; "genius usually follows a revolutionary path" [syn: {path}, {way of life}] 6: any road or path affording passage from one place to another; "he said he was looking for the way out" 7: a line leading to a place or point: "he looked the other direction"; "didn't know the way home" [syn: {direction}] 8: the property of distance in general; "it's a long way to Moscow"; (colloquial) "he went a long ways" [syn: {ways}] 9: doing as one pleases or chooses: "if I had my way" 10: a general category of things used in the expression "in the way of": "they didn't have much in the way of clothing" 11: space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for": "hardly enough elbow room to turn around" [syn: {room}, {elbow room}] 12: a portion of something divided into shares: "the split the loot three ways" adv : (informal) to a great degree or by a great distance; very much "way over budget"; "way off base"; "right smart" is regional (US S and Midland) as in "the other side of the hill is right smart steeper than the side we are on" [syn: {right smart}]
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