way
adv.
to a great degree; distant, remote (Informal)
n.
path; lane; road; track; method, procedure, manner; direction; distance; style or manner particular to someone or something; progress
Way
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Way
(v. t.)
To go or travel to; to go in, as a way or path.
(v. i.)
To move; to progress; to go.
(n.)
The timbers on which a ship is launched.
(n.)
The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan.
(n.)
The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves.
(n.)
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.
(n.)
Sphere or scope of observation.
(n.)
Right of way. See below.
(n.)
Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing.
(n.)
Progress; as, a ship has way.
(n.)
Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas.
(n.)
Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way.
(n.)
Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have one's way.
(n.)
Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance.
(n.)
A moving; passage; procession; journey.
(adv.)
Away.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Way
A passage, street or road. A right of way is a privilege which an individual or a particular description of persons, such as the inhabitants of a particular place, or the owners or occupiers of such place may have, of going over another person's ground.
It is an incorporeal hereditament of a real nature, a mere easement, entirely different from public or private roads.
A right of way may arise, 1. By prescription and immemorial usage. 2. By grant. 3. By reservation 4. By custom. 5. By acts of the legislature. 6. From necessity, when a man's ground is enclosed and completely blocked up, so that he cannot, without passing over his neighbor's land, reach the public road. For example, should A grant a piece of land to B, surrounded by land belonging to A; a right of way over A's land passes of necessity to B, otherwise he could not derive any benefit from the acquisition. The way is to be taken where it will be least injurious to the owner. There are three kinds of ways. 1. A foot-way, called iter. 2. A foot-way and horse-way, called adus. 3. A cart-way, which contains the other two, called via.
This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.
Way
To dream you lose your way, warns you to disabuse your mind of lucky speculations, as your enterprises threaten failure unless you are painstaking in your management of affairs.
See Road and Path.
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or "What's in a dream": a scientific and practical exposition; By Gustavus Hindman, 1910. For the open domain e-text see:
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