Whinock (n.) The small pig of a litter.
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.
Whinyard (n.) A sword, or hanger.
Whinyard (n.) The shoveler.
Whinyard (n.) The poachard.
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.
Whip (v. t.) To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.
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.
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.
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.
Whip (v. t.) To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like.
Whip (v. t.) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
Whip (v. t.) 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.) A large sting ray (Dasybatis, / Trygon, Sayi) native of the Southern United States. It is destitute of large spines on the body and tail.
Whipparee (n.) A large sting ray (Rhinoptera bonasus, or R. 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.
Whipper (n.) A kind of simple willow.
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.
Whipping () a & n. from Whip, v.
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.
Whippletree (n.) The cornel tree.
Whip-poor-will (n.) 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.
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.) A child's toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top.
Whirligig (n.) Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses.
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.) 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.
Whirling () a. & n. from Whirl, v. t.
Whirlpit (n.) A whirlpool.
Whirlpool (n.) 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.
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.