Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 25
Whinock (n.) The small pig of a litter. [Local, U. S.]
Whinstone (n.) A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.
Whinstone (n.) Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) [syn: whinstone, whin].
Whinyard (n.) A sword, or hanger. [Obs.]
Whinyard (n.) [From the shape of the bill.] (Zool.) The shoveler. [Prov. Eng.]
Whinyard (n.) [From the shape of the bill.] (Zool.) The poachard. [Prov. Eng.]
Whipped (imp. & p. p.) of Whip.
Whipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whip.
Whip (v. t.) To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.
Whip (v. t.) To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.
Whip (v. t.) To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.
Who, for false quantities, was whipped at school. -- Dryden.
Whip (v. t.) To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.
They would whip me with their fine wits. -- Shak.
Whip (v. t.) To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat.
Whip (v. t.) To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.
Whip (v. t.) To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass. [Slang, U. S.]
Whip (v. t.) To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; -- often with about, around, or over.
Its string is firmly whipped about with small gut. -- Moxon.
Whip (v. t.) To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle.
In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie. -- Gay.
Whip (v. t.) To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like.
She, in a hurry, whips up her darling under her arm. -- L'Estrange.
He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees. -- Walpole.
Whip (v. t.) (Naut.) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
Whip (v. t.) (Naut.) To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff.
Whip (v. t.) To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip.
Whip (v. i.) To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner.
Whip (v. t.) An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod.
Whip (v. t.) A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip.
Whip (v. t.) One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread.
Whip (v. t.) The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.
Whip (v. t.) A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies.
Whip (v. t.) The long pennant. See Pennant (a)
Whip (v. t.) A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in.
Whip (v. t.) A person (as a member of Parliament) appointed to enforce party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a Parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes are needed.
Whip (v. t.) A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken.
Whipcord (n.) A kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used for making whiplashes.
Whipgrafted (imp. & p. p.) of Whipgraft.
Whipgrafting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whipgraft.
Whipgraft (v. t.) To graft by cutting the scion and stock in a certain manner. See Whip grafting, under Grafting.
Whiplash (n.) The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted.
Whipparee (n.) (Zool.) A large sting ray ({Dasybatis Sayi, or Trygon Sayi) native of the Southern United States.
It is destitute of large spines on the body and tail.
Whipparee (n.) (Zool.) A large
sting ray ({Rhinoptera bonasus, or Rhinoptera quadriloba) of the Atlantic coast
of the United States.
Its snout appears to be four-lobed when viewed in front, whence it is also called cow-nosed ray.
Whipper (n.) One who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping.
Whipper (n.) One who raises coal or merchandise with a tackle from a chip's hold. [Eng.]
Whipper (n.) (Spinning) A kind of simple willow.
Whipper (n.) A person who administers punishment by wielding a switch or whip [syn: switcher, whipper].
Whipperin (n.) A huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering, and whips them in, if necessary, to the of chase.
Whipperin (n.) Hence, one who enforces the discipline of a party, and urges the attendance and support of the members on all necessary occasions.
Whippersnapper (n.) A diminutive, insignificant, or presumptuous person. [Colloq.] "Little whippersnappers like you." -- T. Hughes.
Whippersnapper (n.) Someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous [syn: whippersnapper, jackanapes, lightweight].
Whipping () a & n. from Whip, v.
Whipping post, A post to which offenders are tied, to be legally whipped.
Whipping (a.) Smart and fashionable; "snappy conversation"; "some sharp and whipping lines" [syn: snappy, whipping].
Whipping (n.) Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment [syn: whipping, tanning, flogging, lashing, flagellation].
Whipping (n.) A sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping].
Whipping (n.) A sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally [syn: whipstitch, whipping, whipstitching].
Whipping (n.) The act of overcoming or outdoing [syn: beating, whipping].
Whipping, () punishment. The infliction of stripes.
Whipping, () This mode of punishment, which is still practiced in some of the states, is a relict of barbarism; it has yielded in most of the middle and northern states to the penitentiary system.
Whipping, () The punishment of whipping, so far as the same was provided by the laws of the United States, was abolished by the act of congress of February 28, 1839, s. 5. Vide 1 Chit. Cr. Law, 796; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.
Whippletree (n.) The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces, or tugs, of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree. See Singletree.
[People] cut their own whippletree in the woodlot. -- Emerson.
Whippletree (n.) (Bot.) The cornel tree. -- Chaucer.
Whippletree (n.) A crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling [syn: whiffletree, whippletree, swingletree].
Whip-poor-will (n.) (Zool.) 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.]
Compare: Caprimulgus
Caprimulgus (n.) The type genus of the Caprimulgidae, including the whip-poor-will+({Caprimulgus+vociferus">whip-poor-will ({Caprimulgus vociferus) and the chuck-will's-widow+({Caprimulgus+carolinensis">chuck-will's-widow ({Caprimulgus carolinensis).
Syn: genus Caprimulgus.
Caprimulgidae (n.) A widely distributed natural family of nocturnally active birds including the whip-poor-will ({Caprimulgus vociferus), the chuck-will's-widow ({Caprimulgus carolinensis), and the common nighthawk ({Chordeiles
minor); -- called popularly the goatsuckers or nightjars. The nighthawks are sometimes active during the day.
Syn: goatsuckers, nightjars, family Caprimulgidae.
The family . . . is alternately known as the nightjars (derived from the "churring" sounds of several species -- "jarring" the night air), or goatsuckers, a nonsense name that should be discontinued as it has its origin in the preposterous myth that the birds sucked the milk of nanny goats until they were dry. -- Terence Michael Short (Wild Birds of the Americas)
Whipsaw (n.) A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw.
Whip-shaped (a.) Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or stem.
Whipstaff (n.) A bar attached to the tiller, for convenience in steering.
Whipstalk (n.) A whipstock.
Whipster (n.) A nimble little fellow; a whippersnapper.
Whipstick (n.) Whip handle; whipstock.
Whipstitch (n.) A tailor; -- so called in contempt.
Whipstitch (n.) Anything hastily put or stitched together; hence, a hasty composition.
Whipstitch (n.) The act or process of whipstitching.
Whipstitch (v. t.) To rafter; to plow in ridges, as land.
Whipstock (n.) The rod or handle to which the lash of a whip is fastened.
Whipt (imp. & p. p.) Whipped.
Whip-tom-kelly (n.) A vireo (Vireo altiloquus) native of the West Indies and Florida; -- called also black-whiskered vireo.
Whipworm (n.) A nematode worm (Trichocephalus dispar) often found parasitic in the human intestine. Its body is thickened posteriorly, but is very long and threadlike anteriorly.
Whirred (imp. & p. p.) of Whir.
Whirring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whir.
Whir (v. i.) To whirl round, or revolve, with a whizzing noise; to fly or more quickly with a buzzing or whizzing sound; to whiz.
Whir (v. t.) To hurry a long with a whizzing sound.
Whir (n.) A buzzing or whizzing sound produced by rapid or whirling motion; as, the whir of a partridge; the whir of a spinning wheel.
Whirled (imp. & p. p.) of Whirl.
Whirling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whirl.
Whirl (v. t.) To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
Whirl (v. t.) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry.
Whirl (v. i.) To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.
Whirl (v. i.) To move hastily or swiftly.
Whirl (v. t.) A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion; as, the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel.
Whirl (v. t.) Anything that moves with a whirling motion.
Whirl (v. t.) A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.
Whirl (v. t.) A whorl. See Whorl.
Whirlabout (n.) Something that whirls or turns about in a rapid manner; a whirligig.
Whirlbat (n.) Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers.
Whirl-blast (n.) A whirling blast or wind.
Whirlbone (n.) The huckle bone.
Whirlbone (n.) The patella, or kneepan.
Whirler (n.) One who, or that which, whirls.
Whirlicote (n.) An open car or chariot.
Whirligig (n.) 旋轉玩具；旋轉木馬；陀螺 A child's toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top. -- Johnson.
Whirligig (n.) 旋轉；變遷；輪迴 Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses.
With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head. -- G. W. Cable.
Whirligig (n.) A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity.
Whirligig (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of beetles belonging to Gyrinus and allied genera. The body is firm, oval or boatlike in form, and usually dark colored with a bronzelike luster. These beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with great celerity in a gyrating, or circular, manner, but they are also able to dive and swim rapidly. The larva is aquatic. Called also weaver, whirlwig, and whirlwig beetle.
Whirligig (n.) A conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin; "he got a bright red top and string for his birthday" [syn: top, whirligig, teetotum, spinning top].
Whirligig (n.) A large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement [syn: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig].
Whirligig (v.) Whirl or spin like a whirligig.
Whirligig (n.) [ C ] 快速運動的事物；不斷變化的事物 Something that is full of fast activity and always changing.
// The play has the whirlilgig activity of a farce.
Whirling () a. & n. from Whirl, v. t.
Whirlpit (n.) A whirlpool.
Whirlpool (n.) 漩渦 [C] An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like.
Whirlpool (n.) A sea monster of the whale kind. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are; among which the whales and whirlpools, called "balaenae," take up in length as much as four . . . arpents of land. -- Holland.
Whirlpool (n.) A powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) [syn: whirlpool, vortex, maelstrom].
Whirlpool (v.) Flow in a circular current, of liquids [syn: eddy, purl, whirlpool, swirl, whirl].
Whirlwig (n.) A whirligig.
Whirlwind (n.) A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion.
Whirlwind (n.) Fig.: A body of objects sweeping violently onward.
Whirry (v. i.) To whir.
Whirtle (n.) A perforated steel die through which wires or tubes are drawn to form them.
Whisk (n.) A game at cards; whist.
Whisk (n.) The act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of something light; a sudden motion or quick puff.
Whisk (n.) A small bunch of grass, straw, twigs, hair, or the like, used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom, as of broom corn.
Whisk (n.) A small culinary instrument made of wire, or the like, for whisking or beating eggs, cream, etc.
Whisk (v.) (Remove) [ T usually + adv/prep ] 突然拿走，快速帶走 To take something or someone somewhere else suddenly and quickly.
// Our coffees were whisked away before we'd even finished them.
// We only had half an hour to see her before she was whisked off to some exotic location.
// Her husband whisked her off to Egypt for her birthday.
Whisk (v.) (Beat food) [ T ] 攪打（雞蛋、鮮奶油等） To beat eggs, cream, etc. with a special tool in order to add air and make the food light.
// Whisk the egg whites until stiff.
// Remove mixture from heat and whisk in the brandy and vanilla essence.
Whisk (n.) [ C ] （廚房中的）攪拌器 A kitchen tool that you use for beating food such as eggs and cream in order to add air and make it light.
// Using a whisk, blend the ingredients thoroughly.