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.) 夜鷹屬 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.
Caprimulgus (n.) Type genus of the Caprimulgidae [syn: Caprimulgus, 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)
Caprimulgidae (n.) Goatsuckers [syn: Caprimulgidae, family Caprimulgidae].
Whipsaw (n.) A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw.
Whipsaw (n.) A kind of narrow ripsaw, tapering from butt to point, with hook teeth and averaging from 5 to 71/2 feet in length, used by one or two men.
Whipsaw (v. t.) To saw with the whipsaw.
Whipsaw (v. t.) To defeat in, or cause to lose, two different bets at the same turn or in one play, as a player at faro who has made two bets at the same time, one that a card will lose and another that a different card will win; hence, to defeat in spite of every effort.
Whipsaw (v. t.) To cause to suffer a setback or losses by subjecting to two forces at the same time or in rapid succession; as, consumers were whipsawed by both inflation and higher sales taxes.
Whipsaw (v. t.) (Finance) to cause to suffer a series of losses in trading when buying and selling at the wrong times in a rapidly fluctuating market; -- especially used when an attempt is made, by selling short, to recover losses from a long purchase in a declining market, and the short sale also results in a loss when the market subsequently rises. Used mostly in the passive; as, to be whipsawed by exaggerated responses to a changing outlook.
Whipsaw (n.) A saw with handles at both ends; intended for use by two people [syn: two-handed saw, whipsaw, two-man saw, lumberman's saw].
Whipsaw (v.) Victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations.
Whipsaw (v.) Saw with a whipsaw.
Whip-shaped (a.) Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or stem.
Whipstaff (n.) (Naut.) 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. [R.] -- Dryden.
Whipstitch (n.) (Agric.) The act or process of whipstitching.
Whipstitch (n.) A small bit; esp., a small interval of time; an instant; a minute. [Dial. or Colloq.]
Whipstitch (v. t.) (Agric.) To rafter; to plow in ridges, as land. [Eng.]
Whipstitch (v. t.) To sew by passing the thread over and over; to overcast; whip.
Whipstitch (n.) A sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally [syn: whipstitch, whipping, whipstitching].
Whipstock (n.) The rod or handle to which the lash of a whip is fastened.
Whipt (imp. & p. p.) Whipped.
Whip-tom-kelly (n.) (Zool.) A vireo ({Vireo altiloquus) native of the West Indies and Florida; -- called also black-whiskered vireo.
Whipworm (n.) (Zool.) A nematode worm ({Trichocephalus dispar) often found parasitic in the human intestine. Its body is thickened posteriorly, but is very long and threadlike anteriorly.
Whir (v. t.) To hurry a long with a whizzing sound. [R.]
This world to me is like a lasting storm, Whirring me from my friends. -- Shak.
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.
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.
The partridge bursts away on whirring wings. -- Beattie.
Whir (n.) Sound of something in rapid motion; "whir of a bird's wings"; "the whir of the propellers" [syn: whir, whirr, whirring, birr].
Whir (v.) Make a soft swishing sound; "the motor whirred"; "the car engine purred" [syn: whizz, whiz, whirr, whir, birr, purr].
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.
He whirls his sword around without delay. -- Dryden.
Whirl (v. t.) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry. -- Chaucer.
See, see the chariot, and those rushing wheels, That whirled the prophet up at Chebar flood. -- Milton.
The passionate heart of the poet is whirl'd into folly. -- Tennyson.
Whirl (v. i.) To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate. "The whirling year vainly my dizzy eyes pursue." -- J. H. Newman.
The wooden engine flies and whirls about. -- Dryden.
Whirl (v. i.) To move hastily or swiftly.
But whirled away to shun his hateful sight. -- Dryden.
Whirl (n.) 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. "In no breathless whirl." -- J. H. Newman.
The rapid . . . whirl of things here below interrupt not the inviolable rest and calmness of the noble beings above. -- South.
Whirl (n.) Anything that moves with a whirling motion.
He saw Falmouth under gray, iron skies, and whirls of March dust. -- Carlyle.
Whirl (n.) A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.
Whirl (n.) (Bot. & Zool.) A whorl. See Whorl.
Whirl (n.) Confused movement; "he was caught up in a whirl of work"; "a commotion of people fought for the exits" [syn: whirl, commotion].
Whirl (n.) The shape of something rotating rapidly [syn: whirl, swirl, vortex, convolution].
Whirl (n.) A usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl" [syn: crack, fling, go, pass, whirl, offer].
Whirl (n.) The act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting" [syn: spin, twirl, twist, twisting, whirl].
Whirl (v.) Turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind" [syn: twirl, swirl, twiddle, whirl].
Whirl (v.) Cause to spin; "spin a coin" [syn: whirl, birl, spin, twirl].
Whirl (v.) Flow in a circular current, of liquids [syn: eddy, purl, whirlpool, swirl, whirl].
Whirl (v.) Revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy" [syn: spin, spin around, whirl, reel, gyrate].
Whirl (v.) Fly around; "The clothes tumbled in the dryer"; "rising smoke whirled in the air" [syn: whirl, tumble, whirl around].
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.
The whirlbat and the rapid race shall be Reserved for Caesar. -- Dryden.
Whirl-blast (n.) A whirling blast or wind.
A whirl-blast from behind the hill. -- Wordsworth.
Whirlbone (n.) (Anat.) The huckle bone. [Obs.]
Whirlbone (n.) (Anat.) The patella, or kneepan. [Obs.] -- Ainsworth.
Whirler (n.) One who, or that which, whirls.
Whirler (n.) A dervish whose actions include ecstatic dancing and whirling [syn: whirling dervish, whirler].
Whirler (n.) A revolving mechanism.
Whirlicote (n.) An open car or chariot. [Obs.]
Of old time coaches were not known in this island, but chariots, or whirlicotes. -- Stow.
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. [Obs.] "Raging whirlpits." -- Sandys.
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.) (Zool.) 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.
The swift dark whirlwind that uproots the woods.
And drowns the villages. -- Bryant.
Note: Some meteorologists apply the word whirlwind to the larger rotary storm also, such as cyclones.
Whirlwind (n.) Fig.: A body of objects sweeping violently onward. "The whirlwind of hounds and hunters." -- Macaulay.
Whirlwind (n.) A more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth.
Whirlwind, () An early computer from the MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics.
Whirlwind used electrostatic memory and ran Laning and Zierler (1953); and ALGEBRAIC, COMPREHENSIVE and SUMMER SESSION (all 1959).
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Whirlwind (n.) A small rotating windstorm of limited extent.
Whirlwind (n.) A confused rush : whirl.
// A whirlwind of meetings.
Whirlwind (n.) A violent or destructive force or agency.
Whirlwind (a.) Resembling a whirlwind especially in speed or force.
// A whirlwind campaign.
// A whirlwind romance.
Whirry (v. i.) To whir. [Obs.]
Whirtle (n.) (Mech.) A perforated steel die through which wires or tubes are drawn to form them.
Whisk (n.) A game at cards; whist. [Obs.] -- Taylor (1630).
Whisk (n.) The act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of something light; a sudden motion or quick puff.
This first sad whisk Takes off thy dukedom; thou art but an earl. -- J. Fletcher.
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. -- Boyle.
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.