‘drink water and put in for a hundred,’ iii. 306;
  life not shortened by a free use of it, iii. 170
    (See under JOHNSON, wine);
  melancholy increased by it, i. 446;
  patron, drinking to please a, iii. 329: 
  See under BOSWELL, wine, DRINKING and SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. 
WINGS OF IRON, iv. 356, n. 1. 
WINIFRED’S WELL, v. 442. 
WINNINGTON, Thomas, i. 502. 
WIRGMAN, keeper of a toy-shop, iii. 325. 
WIRTEMBERG, Prince of, ii. 180. 
WISE, Francis, Radclivian Librarian,
  account of him, i. 275, n. 4;
  Johnson visits him at Elsfield, i. 273;
  mentioned, i. 278-9, 282, 289, 322. 
WISEDOME, Robert, v. 444. 
WISHART, George, THE REFORMER, v. 63, n. 3. 
WISHART, Dr. William, v. 252. 
WIT,
  basis of all wit is truth, ii. 90, n. 3;
  Chesterfield on the property in it, iii. 351, n. 1;
  defined in Barrow’s Sermon, iv. 105, n. 4;
  generally false reasoning, iii. 23, n. 3. 
WITCHES,
  evidence of their having existed, ii. 178;
  Johnson’s disbelief in them, ii. 179, n. 1;
  ‘machinery of poetry,’ iv. 17;
  Shakespeare’s, iii. 382; v. 76, 115, 347;
  Wesley’s belief in them, ii. 178, n. 3;
  witchcraft, punished by death, v. 45;
    abolished by act of parliament, ib.;
    last executions, v. 46, n. 1. 
WITNESSES, examination of, v. 243. 
WITS,
  a celebrated one, iii. 388;
  the female wits, iv. 103, n. 1. 
WITTEMBERG, iii. 122, n, 2. 
WOFFINGTON, Margaret (Peg),
  Garrick’s tea, iii. 264;
  sister of Mrs. Cholmondeley, iii. 318, n. 3. 
WOLCOT, John (Peter Pindar), v. 415, n. 4. 
WOLFE, General,’ choice of difficulties,’ v. 146. 
WOLVERHAMPTON,
  Elwall the quaker ironmonger, ii. 164;
  epitaph in the church, i. 149, n. 2. 
WOMEN,
  Addison’s time, in, iv. 217, n. 4;
  carefulness with money, iv. 33;
  cookery, cannot make a book of, iii. 285;
  employment of them, ii. 362, n. 1;
  envy of men’s vices, iv. 291;
  few opportunities of improving their condition, iv. 33;
  fortune, of, iii. 3;
  genteel, more, than men, iii. 53;
  gluttony, i. 468, n. 1;
  Greek and pudding-making, i. 122, n. 4;
  indifferent to characters of men, iv. 291;
  knowledge, none the worse for, ii. 76; v. 226;
  little things, can take up with, iii. 242;
  marrying a pretty woman, iv. 131;
  men have more liberty allowed them, iii. 286;
  natural claims, ii. 419;
  over-match for men, v. 226;
  Papists, surprising that they are not, iv. 289;
  pious, not more, than men, iv. 289;
  portrait-painting improper for them, ii. 362;
  power given them by nature and law, v. 226, n. 2;
  preaching, i. 463;
  quality, of, iii. 353;
  reading, iii. 333; iv. 217, n. 4;
  soldiers, as, v. 229;
  temptations, have fewer, iii. 287;
  understandings better cultivated, iii. 3;
  virtuous, more, than of old, iii. 3.