The tire of a wheel.
A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
The European goatsucker.
Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four-wheeled carriage.
A small house on or above a vessel's deck, containing the steering wheel. A paddle box. See under Paddle.
One who rides a bicycle or tricycle; a cycler, or cyclist.
See Swarf.
A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism.
A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
Circular; suitable to rotation.
A quantity; a goodly number.
A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
Breathing with difficulty and with a wheeze; wheezing. Used also figuratively.
See Waft, n., 4.
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.
Having whelks; whelky; as, whelked horns.
To bring forth, as cubs or young; to give birth to.
Whereas; while
Whencesoever.
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence.
From what place soever; from what cause or source soever.
Whenever.
At whatever time.
Whence.
At what time soever; at whatever time; whenever.
Place; situation.
Whether.
Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form.
The place where a person or thing is; as, they did not know his whereabouts.
At which place; where.
the reason why.
From which; from which or what place.
The quality or state of having a place; ubiety; situation; position.
Out of which.
Wheresoever.
Wheresoever.
In what place soever; in whatever place; wherever.
Through which.
Same as Whereto.
Upon which; in consequence of which; after which.
At or in whatever place; wheresoever.
The necessary means or instrument.
Wherewith.
A box on the ear.
A liquor made from the pulp of crab apples after the verjuice is expressed; -- sometimes called crab wherry.
Wheresoever.
In case; if; -- used to introduce the first or two or more alternative clauses, the other or others being connected by or, or by or whether. When the second of two alternatives is the simple negative of the first it is sometimes only indicated by the particle not or no after the correlative, and sometimes it is omitted entirely as being distinctly implied in the whether of the first.
The retention of the afterbirth in cows.
The green woodpecker, or yaffle. See Yaffle.
A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, or sharpening, edge tools.
The vertebrae of the back.
To whistle with a shrill pipe, like a plover.
Calcium oxalate, occurring in colorless or white monoclinic crystals.
The European widgeon.
The serum, or watery part, of milk, separated from the more thick or coagulable part, esp. in the process of making cheese.
Having a pale or white face, as from fright.
Of the nature of, or containing, whey; resembling whey; wheyish.
One who is pale, as from fear.
Somewhat like whey; wheyey.
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
Whither.
To emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff.
A little whiff or puff.
A fife or small flute.
Same as Whippletree.
Of or pertaining to the Whigs.
A Whig; -- a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch Presbyterians.
Government by Whigs.
The principles or practices of the Whigs; Whiggism.
Of or pertaining to Whigs; partaking of, or characterized by, the principles of Whigs.
In a Whiggish manner.
The principles of the Whigs.
A petty or inferior Whig; -- used in contempt.
Until; till.
A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile.
During the time that; while.
Which.
Formerly; once; of old; erewhile; at times.
While.
To be subject to, or indulge in, whims; to be whimsical, giddy, or freakish.
Any one of several species of small curlews, especially the European species (Numenius phaeopus), called also Jack curlew, half curlew, stone curlew, and tang whaup. See Illustration in Appendix.
One given to whims; hence, a weak, childish person; a child.
Full of whims; whimsical.
A low, whining, broken cry; a low, whining sound, expressive of complaint or grief.
One who whimpers.
To whiffle; to veer.
To fill with whimseys, or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.
The quality or state of being whimsical; whimsicalness.
In a whimsical manner; freakishly.
The quality or state of being whimsical; freakishness; whimsical disposition.
A whimsey.
The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze.
A small warbler (Pratincola rubetra) common in Europe; -- called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet.
A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.
One who, or that which, whines.
To whine.
A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a weapon.
In a whining manner; in a tone of mean complaint.
To whinny.
Abounding in whin, gorse, or furze.
The small pig of a litter.
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.
A sword, or hanger.
To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner.
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.
Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or stem.
A vireo (Vireo altiloquus) native of the West Indies and Florida; -- called also black-whiskered vireo.
A kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used for making whiplashes.
To graft by cutting the scion and stock in a certain manner. See Whip grafting, under Grafting.
The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted.
an injury to the neck caused by the sudden motion of the head backward and forward, as occurs to the occupants of a vehicle hit from behind by another vehicle.
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. 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.
A diminutive, insignificant, or presumptuous person.
a n. from Whip, v.
To saw with the whipsaw.
A bar attached to the tiller, for convenience in steering.
A whipstock.
A nimble little fellow; a whippersnapper.
Whip handle; whipstock.
To rafter; to plow in ridges, as land.
The rod or handle to which the lash of a whip is fastened.