Women Servants, wages, ii. 217. 
Women of the Town, how far admitted to taverns, iv. 75;
  narrate their histories to Johnson, i. 223, n. 2; iv. 396;
  one rescued by him, iv. 321;
  wretched life, i. 457. 
Wonders, catching greedily at them, i. 498, n. 4;
  propagating them, iii. 229, n. 3. 
Wood, Anthony a, Assembly Man, v. 57, n. 2;
  on Burton’s tutor at Christ Church, i. 59;
  Rawlinson’s collections for a continuation of the Athenae,
iv. 161, n. 1;
  styles Blackmore gentleman, ii. 126, n. 4. 
Woodcocks, ii. 55, 248. 
Woodhouse, the poetical shoemaker, i. 225, n. 1, 520; ii. 127. 
Woodstock.  See BLENHEIM. 
Woodward, Henry, the actor, ii. 208, n. 5. 
Woodward, John, iv. 23, n. 3. 
Woollen Act, ii. 453, n. 2. 
Woolston, Rev. Thomas, v. 419, n. 2,
Woolwich, iii. 268. 
Worchester, Gwynn’s bridge over the Severn, v. 454, n. 2;
  Johnson visits it, v. 456;
  mentioned, iii. 176, n. 1. 
Worcester, Battle of, iv. 234, n. 1; v. 319.
Word to the Wise, iii. 113. 
Words, big words for little matters, i. 471;
  words describing manners soon require notes, ii. 212. 
Wordsworth, William,
  Edinburgh Review and Lord Byron, iv. 115, n. 2;
  Excursion, quoted, v. 424;
  lines to Lady Fleming, i, 461, n. 5;
  Lonsdale’s, first Lord, cruelty to him, v. 113, n. 1;
  poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1;
  Solitary Reaper, v. 117, n. 3;
  ‘We live by admiration,’ ii. 360, n. 3. 
Work.  See LABOUR.
Work him, iv. 261, n. 3; v. 243. 
Workhouse, parish, iii. 187. 
World, complaints of it unjust, iv. 172;
  counterfeiting happiness, ii. 169, n. 3;
  despised, not to be, i. 144, n. 2;
  Johnson’s knowledge of it, i. 215;
    likes the society of a man of the world, iii. 21, n. 3;
  judgment must be accepted, i. 200;
  knowledge not strained through books, i. 105;
  peevishly represented as very unjust, iii. 237, n. 1;
  running about it, i. 215;
  running from it, iv. 161, n. 3. 
World, The, a club, iv. 102, n. 4.
World, The, Bedlam, visitors to, ii. 374, n. 1;
  Chesterfield’s papers on the Dictionary, i. 257-9;
  confounded with The World of 1790, iii. 16, n. 1;
  contributors, i. 257, n. 3; v. 48, 238;
  Johnson thinks little of it, i. 420;
  name chosen by Dodsley, i. 202, n. 4.
World, The, newspaper of 1790, iii. 16, n. 1.
World Displayed, Introduction to the, i. 345. 
WORRALL, T., i. 166, n. 4. 
WORSHIP OF IMAGES, iii. 17, 188. 
WORTHINGTON, Dr., V. 443, 449, 453. 
WOTTON, Sir Henry, ii. 170, n. 3. 
WOTY, Mr., i. 382. 
WRAXALL, Sir Nathaniel W.,
  George III’s manners, ii. 40, n. 4;
  Johnson, describes, iii. 426, n. 4;
    and the Duchess of Devonshire, iii. 425, n. 4;
    and Mrs. Montagu, iv. 64, n. 1;
    meets, at Mrs. Vesey’s,