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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A harmless cyst, especially on the scalp or face, containing the fatty secretion of a sebaceous gland.
  2. n. Variant of wynn.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A runic symbol used in Anglo-Saxon up to about 1300 a.d. to represent the w-sound.
  2. n. A current silver coin of Korea, equivalent to 40 United States cents.
  3. n. A circumscribed benign tumor of moderate size, occurring on any part of the body, but especially on the scalp, consisting of a well-defined sac inclosing sebaceous matter.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a cyst on the skin
  2. n. a runic letter later replaced by w

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Old English; see wen-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  • crysb This is a word that sounds lovely before you learn its meaning. Aug 9, 2009

  • oroboros New in reverse. Nov 2, 2007

‘wen’ has been looked up 1983 times, loved by 3 people, added to 19 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 6.