Witches.  Silver.  Witcher bubber; a silver bowl.  Witcher
  tilter; a silver-hilted sword.  Witcher cully; a silversmith.

To wobble.  To boil.  Pot wobbler; one who boils a
  pot.

Wolf in the breast. An extraordinary mode of imposition,
  sometimes practised in the country by strolling
  women, who have the knack of counterfeiting extreme
  pain, pretending to have a small animal called a wolf in
  their breasts, which is continually gnawing them.

Wolf in the stomach.  A monstrous or canine appetite.

Wood.  In a wood; bewildered, in a maze, in a peck of
  troubles, puzzled, or at a loss what course to take in any
  business.  To look over the wood; to ascend the pulpit,
  to preach:  I shall look over the wood at St. James’s on
  Sunday next.  To look through the wood; to stand in the
  pillory.  Up to the arms in wood; in the pillory.

Wood pecker.  A bystander, who bets whilst another
  plays.

Woodcock.  A taylor with a long bill.

Wooden habeas.  A coffin.  A man who dies in prison is
  said to go out with a wooden habeas.  He went out with
  a wooden habeas; i.e. his coffin.

Wooden spoon. (Cambridge.) The last junior optime. 
  See wrangler, optime.

Wooden horse.  To fide the wooden horse was a military
  punishment formerly in use.  This horse consisted of two
  or more planks about eight feet long, fixed together so as
  to form a sharp ridge or angle, which answered to the
  body of the horse.  It was supported by four posts, about
  six feet long, for legs.  A head, neck, and tail, rudely cut
  in wood, were added, which completed the appearance of
  a horse.  On this sharp ridge delinquents were mounted,
  with their hands tied behind them; and to steady them
  (as it was said), and lest the horse should kick them off,
  one or more firelocks were tied to each leg.  In this situation
  they were sometimes condemned to sit an hour or
  two; but at length it having been found to injure the
  soldiers materially, and sometimes to rupture them, it was
  left off about the time of the accession of King George I.
  A wooden horse was standing in the Parade at Portsmouth
  as late as the year 1750.

Wooden ruff.  The pillory.  See Norway neckcloth.

Wooden surtout.  A coilin.

Woman of the town, or woman of pleasure.  A
  prostitute.

Woman and her husband.  A married couple, where
  the woman is bigger than her husband.

Woman’s conscience.  Never satisfied.