will : Idioms & Phrases

• administration granted where the testator has appointed no executor, or where his appointment of an executor for any cause has failed, as by death, incompetency, refusal to act, etc.

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• adverb as one chooses or pleases
  
  • he can roam the neighborhood at will

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• (Law), at pleasure. To hold an estate at the will of another, is to enjoy the possession at his pleasure, and be liable to be ousted at any time by the lessor or proprietor. An estate at will is at the will of both parties.

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• noun large whippoorwill-like bird of the southern United States
  Caprimulgus carolinensis.
  

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Chuck`-Will's-wid"ow noun

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1. (Zool.) A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note.

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• noun the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies
  discretion.
  

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Free will

Definitions

1. A will free from improper coercion or restraint.

   To come thus was I not constrained, but did On my free will. Shak.

2. The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity.

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• noun the omnipotence of a divine being
  

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• noun a disposition to kindness and compassion
  grace; goodwill.
  
  • the victor's grace in treating the vanquished
• noun (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets)
  goodwill.
  
• noun the friendly hope that something will succeed
  goodwill.
  

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• . (a) Benevolence; well wishing; kindly feeling. (b) (Law) The custom of any trade or business; the tendency or inclination of persons, old customers and others, to resort to an established place of business; the advantage accruing from tendency or inclination.

  The good will of a trade is nothing more than the probability that the old customers will resort to the old place. Lord Eldon.

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• noun United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)
  Helen Newington Wills; Helen Wills; Moody.
  

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• noun United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)
  Helen Newington Wills; Helen Wills; Moody.
  

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• noun United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)
  Helen Newington Wills; Helen Wills; Moody.
  

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• noun the feeling of a hostile person
  enmity; hostility.
  
  • he could no longer contain his hostility
• noun a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition
  hostility.
  
  • he could not conceal his hostility

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• unkindness; enmity; malevolence.
• enmity; unfriendliness; malevolence.

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Ill`-will"

Definitions

1. . See under Ill, a.

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• noun a document written by someone still legally capable requesting that he should be allowed to die if subsequently severely disabled or suffering terminal illness
  
  • after he discovered he had AIDS he drew up a living will

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• noun slender branching American grass of some value for grazing in central United States
  nimblewill; Muhlenbergia schreberi.
  

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• a will or testament made by word of mouth only, before witnesses, as by a soldier or seaman, and depending on oral testimony for proof. Blackstone.

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• noun Irish writer and wit (1854-1900)
  Wilde; Oscar Wilde.
  

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Poor"-will` noun

Etymology

So called in imitation of its note.

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) A bird of the Western United States (Phalænoptilus Nutalli) allied to the whip-poor-will.

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• noun a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate
  probate.
  

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• (Law), the delivery of a will, as his own, by a testator to witnesses who attest it.

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• noun resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires
  pigheadedness; stubbornness; obstinacy; obstinance; bullheadedness.
  
• noun the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior
  possession; self-will; self-possession; willpower; self-control; self-command.
  

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Self`-will" noun

Etymology

AS. selfwill.

Definitions

1. One's own will, esp. when opposed to that of others; obstinacy.

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• adjective satellite habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition
  willful; wilful; headstrong; froward.
  

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Self`-willed" adjective

Definitions

1. Governed by one's own will; not yielding to the wishes of others; obstinate.

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• adjective satellite having a determined will
  strong-minded.
  

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• to obtain what is desired; to do what one pleases.

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• (Law), to acknowledge it before the witnesses as the testator's last will and testament.

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Whip"-poor-will` noun

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) An American bird (Antrostomus vociferus) allied to the nighthawk and goatsucker; -- so called in imitation of the peculiar notes which it utters in the evening. Written also whippowil.

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• noun United States historian (1885-1981)
  William James Durant; Durant.
  

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• noun United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United States films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954)
  Hays; William Harrison Hays.
  

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• whether I, you, or he will it or not; hence, without choice; compulsorily; sometimes corrupted into willy nilly. "If I must take service willy nilly." J. H. Newman. "Land for all who would till it, and reading and writing will ye, nill ye." Lowell.

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• noun United States food manufacturer who (with his brother) developed a breakfast cereal of crisp flakes of rolled and toasted wheat and corn; he established a company to manufacture the cereal (1860-1951)
  W. K. Kellogg; Kellogg.
  

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• noun the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior
  possession; self-will; self-possession; willpower; self-control; self-command.
  

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• noun United States humorist remembered for his homespun commentary on politics and American society (1879-1935)
  Rogers; William Penn Adair Rogers.
  

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• noun a pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground
  friar's lantern; ignis fatuus; jack-o'-lantern.
  
• noun an illusion that misleads
  ignis fatuus.
  

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Will"-o'-the-wisp` noun

Definitions

1. See Ignis fatuus.

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• adjective satellite not reluctant
  

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• with willingness and zeal; with all one's heart or strength; earnestly; heartily.

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