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Wilfley Table
- - An inclined percussion table, usually with longitudinal grooves in its surface, agitated by side blows at right angles to the flow of the pulp; -- so called after the inventor.
Wilhelm Grimm
- noun - the younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859)
Wilhelm Reich
- noun - Austrian born psychoanalyst who lived in the United States; advocated sexual freedom and believed that cosmic energy could be concentrated in a human being (1897-1957)
Willfulnesses
- noun - the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline
William Blake
- noun - visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)
William Bligh
- noun - British admiral; was captain of the H.M.S. Bounty in 1789 when part of the crew mutinied and set him afloat in an open boat; a few weeks later he arrived safely in Timor 4,000 miles away (1754-1817)
William Clark
- noun - United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River; Clark was responsible for making maps of the area (1770-1838)
William Dawes
- noun - American patriot who rode with Paul Revere to warn that the British were advancing on Lexington and Concord (1745-1799)
William Green
- noun - United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952)
William Henry
- noun - English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836)