Woman of all work.  Sometimes applied to a female
  servant, who refuses none of her master’s commands.

WOOLBIRD.  A sheep.  Cant.

Wool gathering.  Your wits are gone a woolgathering;
  saying to an absent man, one in a reverie, or absorbed
  in thought.

Woolley crown.  A soft-headed fellow.

Word GRUBBERS.  Verbal critics, and also persons who
  use hard words in common discourse.

Word pecker.  A punster, one who plays upon words.

Word of mouth.  To drink by word of mouth, i.e. out
  of the bowl or bottle instead, of a glass.

World.  All the world and his wife; every body, a great
  company.

Worm.  To worm out; to obtain the knowledge of a secret
  by craft, also to undermine or supplant.  He is gone to
  the diet of worms; he is dead and buried, or gone to
  Rothisbone.

Wranglers.  At Cambridge the first class (generally of
  twelve) at the annual examination for a degree.  There
  are three classes of honours, wranglers, senior optimes,
  and junior optimes.  Wranglers are said to be born with
  golden spoons in their mouths, the senior optimes with
  silver, and the junior with leaden ones.  The last junior
  optime is called the wooden spoon.  Those who are not
  qualified for honors are either in the Gulf (that is,
  meritorious, but not deserving of being in the three first
  classes) or among the pollot [Proofreaders Note:  Greek Letters]
  the many.  See pluck, apostles, &C.

Wrap rascal.  A red cloak, called also a roquelaire.

WRAPT up in warm flannel.  Drunk with spirituous
  liquors.  He was wrapt up in the tail of his mother’s
  smock; saying of any one remarkable for his success with
  the ladies.  To be wrapt up in any one:  to have a good
  opinion of him, or to be under his influence.

Wrinkle.  A wrinkle-bellied whore; one who has had
  a number of bastards:  child-bearing leaves wrinkles in a
  woman’s belly.  To take the wrinkles out of any one’s
  belly; to fill it out by a hearty meal.  You have one
  wrinkle more in your a-se; i.e. you have one piece of
  knowledge more than you had, every fresh piece of
  knowledge being supposed by the vulgar naturalists to add a
  wrinkle to that part.

Wry mouth and A PISSEN pair of breeches.  Hanging.

Wry neck day.  Hanging day.

WYN.  See win.

XANTIPPE.  The name of Socrates’s wife:  now used to
  signify a shrew or scolding wife.

YAFFLING.  Eating.  Cant.

To Yam.  To eat or stuff heartily.