What (interrog. adv.) Why? For what purpose? On what account?
Whate'er (pron.) A contraction of what-ever; -- used in poetry.
Whatever (pron.) Anything soever which; the thing or things of any kind; being this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or another; anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all particulars that; -- used both substantively and adjectively.
Whatnot (n.) A kind of stand, or piece of furniture, having shelves for books, ornaments, etc.; an etagere.
Whatso (indef. pron.) Whatsoever; whosoever; whatever; anything that.
Whatsoe'er (pron.) A contraction of whatsoever; -- used in poetry.
Whatsoever (pron. & a.) Whatever.
Whaul (n.) Same as Whall.
Whaup (n.) See Whaap.
Wheal (n.) A pustule; a whelk.
Wheal (n.) A more or less elongated mark raised by a stroke; also, a similar mark made by any cause; a weal; a wale.
Wheal (n.) Specifically (Med.), a flat, burning or itching eminence on the skin, such as is produced by a mosquito bite, or in urticaria.
Wheal (n.) A mine.
Whealworm (n.) The harvest mite; -- so called from the wheals, caused by its bite.
Wheat (n.) A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race.
Wheatbird (n.) A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
Wheatear (n.) A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail.
Wheaten (a.) Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread.
Wheatsel bird () The male of the chaffinch.
Wheatstone's bridge () See under Bridge.
Wheatworm (n.) A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici) which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm.
Wheder (pron. & conj.) Whether.
Wheedled (imp. & p. p.) of Wheedle
Wheedling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wheedle
Wheedle (v. t.) To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax.
Wheedle (v. t.) To grain, or get away, by flattery.
Wheedle (v. i.) To flatter; to coax; to cajole.
Wheel (n.) A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk, whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii, and a central hub or nave, in which is inserted the axle, -- used for supporting and conveying vehicles, in machinery, and for various purposes; as, the wheel of a wagon, of a locomotive, of a mill, of a watch, etc.
Wheel (n.) Any instrument having the form of, or chiefly consisting of, a wheel.
Wheel (n.) A spinning wheel. See under Spinning.
Wheel (n.) An instrument of torture formerly used.
Wheel (n.) A circular frame having handles on the periphery, and an axle which is so connected with the tiller as to form a means of controlling the rudder for the purpose of steering.
Wheel (n.) A potter's wheel. See under Potter.
Wheel (n.) A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases.
Wheel (n.) The burden or refrain of a song.
Wheel (n.) A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede.
Wheel (n.) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
Wheel (n.) A turn revolution; rotation; compass.
Wheeled (imp. & p. p.) of Wheel
Wheeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wheel
Wheel (v. t.) To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood.
Wheel (v. t.) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to cause to gyrate; to make or perform in a circle.
Wheel (v. i.) To turn on an axis, or as on an axis; to revolve; to more about; to rotate; to gyrate.
Wheel (v. i.) To change direction, as if revolving upon an axis or pivot; to turn; as, the troops wheeled to the right.
Wheel (v. i.) To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass.
Wheel (v. i.) To roll forward.
Wheelband (n.) The tire of a wheel.
Wheelbarrow (n.) A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
Wheelbird (n.) The European goatsucker.
Wheeled (a.) Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four-wheeled carriage.
Wheeler (n.) One who wheels, or turns.
Wheeler (n.) A maker of wheels; a wheelwright.
Wheeler (n.) A wheel horse. See under Wheel.
Wheeler (n.) A steam vessel propelled by a paddle wheel or by paddle wheels; -- used chiefly in the terms side-wheeler and stern-wheeler.
Wheeler (n.) A worker on sewed muslin.
Wheeler (n.) The European goatsucker.
Wheelhouse (n.) A small house on or above a vessel's deck, containing the steering wheel.
Wheelhouse (n.) A paddle box. See under Paddle.
Wheeling (n.) The act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle.
Wheeling (n.) The act or practice of using a cycle; cycling.
Wheeling (n.) Condition of a road or roads, which admits of passing on wheels; as, it is good wheeling, or bad wheeling.
Wheeling (n.) A turning, or circular movement.
Wheelmen (pl. ) of Wheelman
Wheelman (n.) One who rides a bicycle or tricycle; a cycler, or cyclist.
Wheel-shaped (a.) Shaped like a wheel.
Wheel-shaped (a.) Expanding into a flat, circular border at top, with scarcely any tube; as, a wheel-shaped corolla.
Wheelswarf (n.) See Swarf.
Wheelwork (n.) A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism.
Wheel-worn (a.) Worn by the action of wheels; as, a wheel-worn road.
Wheelwright (n.) A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
Wheely (a.) Circular; suitable to rotation.
Wheen (n.) A quantity; a goodly number.
Wheezed (imp. & p. p.) of Wheeze
Wheezing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wheeze
Wheeze (v. i.) To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
Wheeze (n.) A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
Wheeze (n.) An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper." It is a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
Wheezy (a.) Breathing with difficulty and with a wheeze; wheezing. Used also figuratively.
Wheft (n.) See Waft, n., 4.
Whelk (n.) Any one numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinum and allied genera; especially, Buccinum undatum, common on the coasts both of Europe and North America, and much used as food in Europe.
Whelk (n.) A papule; a pustule; acne.
Whelk (n.) A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.
Whelked (a.) Having whelks; whelky; as, whelked horns.
Whelky (a.) Having whelks, ridges, or protuberances; hence, streaked; striated.
Whelky (a.) Shelly.
Whelmed (imp. & p. p.) of Whelm
Whelming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whelm
Whelm (v. t.) To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.
Whelm (v. t.) Fig.: To cover completely, as if with water; to immerse; to overcome; as, to whelm one in sorrows.
Whelm (v. t.) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
Whelp (n.) One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's whelps.
Whelp (n.) A child; a youth; -- jocosely or in contempt.
Whelp (n.) One of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a capstan or a windless; -- usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a windlass.
Whelp (n.) One of the teeth of a sprocket wheel.
Whelped (imp. & p. p.) of Whelp
Whelping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whelp
Whelp (v. i.) To bring forth young; -- said of the female of the dog and some beasts of prey.
Whelp (v. t.) To bring forth, as cubs or young; to give birth to.
When (adv.) At what time; -- used interrogatively.
When (adv.) At what time; at, during, or after the time that; at or just after, the moment that; -- used relatively.