WAND

baton, wand

(noun) a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir

wand

(noun) a rod used by a magician or water diviner

scepter, sceptre, verge, wand

(noun) a ceremonial or emblematic staff

wand

(noun) a thin supple twig or rod; “stems bearing slender wands of flowers”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

wand (plural wands)

A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.

(by extension) An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand.

A magic wand.

A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.

A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.

Verb

wand (third-person singular simple present wands, present participle wanding, simple past and past participle wanded)

(transitive) To scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a metal detector.

Anagrams

• Dawn, Dwan, dawn

Source: Wiktionary

Wand, n. Etym: [Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. vöndr, akin to Dan. vaand, Goth. wandus; perhaps originally, a pliant twig, and akin to E. wind to turn.]

1. A small stick; a rod; a verge. With good smart blows of a wand on his back. Locke.

2. Specifically: (a) A staff of authority. Though he had both spurs and wand, they seemed rather marks of sovereignty than instruments of punishment. Sir P. Sidney.

(b) A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc. Picus bore a buckler in his hand; His other waved a long divining wand. Dryden. Wand of peace (Scots Law), a wand, or staff, carried by the messenger of a court, which he breaks when deforced (that is, hindered from executing process), as a symbol of the deforcement, and protest for remedy of law. Burrill.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition