Noah Webster
Was
WAS, s. as z.; the past tense of the substantive verb; Latin , to be, to exist, whence English is, in the present tense, and was in the past; as, I was; he was
WAS, s. as z.; the past tense of the substantive verb; Latin , to be, to exist, whence English is, in the present tense, and was in the past; as, I was; he was