WANDRETH, sb. sorrow, trouble.  Douglas, I, 88, 14.  O.N.
    vandraeethi, difficulty, trouble.  Norse, vanraad, misery,
    poverty.

WANT, VANT, vb. lack, stand in need of, suffer.  Montg., S., 48, 3;
    Lyndsay, 152, 40704; Bruce, V, 422; Burns, 113, 2, 3.  O.N.
    vanta, to lack.  Norse vanta, lack, never means desire. 
    This is the regular use of the word in Sco.

WANTHREIVIN, adj. unthriven, miserable.  Montg., F., 327.  O.N.
    van + þrifenn, Norse vantreven, O.N. vb. þrifa, Norse
    triva, vantriva (refl.).  See Skeat under Eng. thrive and
    thrift.

WAP (w[)ae]p), vb. to turn, overturn, throw, hurl.  Douglas, I, 2,
    20; III, 167, 28; Gol. and Gaw., 127.  O.N. vappa, to waddle. 
    Norse vappa, turn, wrap around.  Sw. dial. vappla, wrap up. 
    Cu. wap, to wrap.

WARE, vb. to lay out money, spend.  Rolland, III, 450; Dunbar, 92,
    13; R.R., 3553.  O.N. verja, to invest money.  See Wall.

WAUR, vb. to overcome.  Burns, 7, 1, 7; Psalms, CXL, 2.  See werr. 
    Cp.  Eng. worst as a vb. and superlative of bad, worse.

WEIK, vb. to weaken.  Scott, 68, 14.  Cp.  Norse veikja, to
    weaken, make weak.  O.N. vaeikja, to grow weak, both from adj.
    vaeikr, weak, same as O.E. w[-a]c.  The Sco. vb. may be
    formed directly from the adj., in which case its origin
    becomes uncertain.  Skeat says Eng. weak, M.E. weyke (which
    replaced wook < O.E. w[-a]c), is from O.N. vaeikr.  But
    the M. Sco. form of O.E. or O. Nhb. w[-a]c was w[-a]ke
    (w[-e]k); our word could come from this.  The diphthong,
    however, rather indicates that it comes from the Norse vb.

WEILL-VARANDLY, adv. in a proper manner.  R.R., 911.  See farrand. 
    Cp.  O.N. fara vel, Norse fara vel, to go well, velfaren,
    gone well.

WELTER, vb. to roll, turn, overturn.  Bruce, XI, 25; III, 700;
    Douglas, II, 125, 25; T.M.W., 439; Lyndsay, 342, 770.  O.N.
    valtra, to be unsteady, not firm, easily shaken.  O. Sw.
    valltra, Sw. dial. vaelltra, to roll.

WERR, WERE, WAR, VAR, WAUR, adj. worse.  C.S., 57; Lyndsay,
    428, 1392; R.R., 589, etc.  O.N. verr, worse, Norse verr,
    verre, Dan. vaerre, Sw. vaerr, Cu. waar.  This is the
    modern Sco. pronunciation of it.  The O. Fr. wirra does not
    correspond to the Sco. forms of the word.  It is most common in
    Scotland and N.W.  England.