whin 
bumet-rose (ij. spinim»nma\ and rarely some other plants. 
Britten and UMand. (I'rov. Eng.) — Heather- Whin. 
Same as moor-w/im. — Ijidy-whin, a Scotch name of the 
land whin. — Land-Whin, the rest-harrow, Ononu arcen- 
as: so named as infesting the cultivated field, as distin- 
guished from the furze growing only along the margin. 
Britten and Holland. [I'rov. Eng.) —Moor- whin, a spe 
6901 
I whyne, as a chylde dothe, or a dogge. . . . Whyne you 
nowe, do you holde your peace, or I shall make you. 
PaUgrave^ p. 781. 
\st witch. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd. 
2d witch. Thrice, and once the hedge-pig whined. 
Shak., .Macbeth, iv. 1. 2. 
ciesof broom. Genista A nulica, growing on bleak heaths 2. To complain in a puerile, feeble, or imdie- 
and mosses : from its sharp spines commonly called medle- .lifiprf -(vav • bemoan one's self we-i k-1 v 
furze or -whtn. Compare petty whin.— 'BettY wMn. a '""'^""<''y> uemoan one s seu weakly, 
name originally invented by Turner for the rest-harrow 
Ononis arvensis, but later applied in books to the moor- 
whin. Prior, Pop. Names of British Plants. 
Whin^ (hwin), «. [Short for whUistoiie.} A 
name given in the north of England and in 
Wales to various rocks, chiefly to basalt, but 
also to any unusually hard quartzose sand- 
stone. The latter is sometimes called white or 
gray whin, the basalt blue whin. See whin-siU. 
whin^ (hwin), H. An erroneous form of whim^, 
3. E. H. Kniyht. 
whin'' (hwin), «. Same as whcen^. [Scotch.] 
whin-ax (hwiu'aks), H. An instrument used 
for extirpating whin from land. 
whinberxy (hwin'ber'i), w.; pi. whinberries 
(-iz). An erroneous form of wiiiberry. 
Here is a heap of moss-clad boulder, there a patch of 
whinberry shrub covered with purple fruit- 
The Purl/ulio, 1890, p. 198. 
whin-bruiser (hwin'bro'zer), «. A machine 
for cutting and bruising furze or whins for fod- 
der for cattle. SimmoiKt.^. 
whin-bushchat (hwin'biish'ehat), n. The whin- 
chat. M'li-t/illirnn/. 
whinchacker, whincheck (hwin'ehak"er, 
-chek), n. Same as whiiichat. Also whiii- 
clocharet. [Prov. Eng.] 
Whinchat (hwin'chat), «. [< uhiiii + (>/iaf2.] 
An oscine passerine bird of the genus I'rutin- 
cola, P. rubetra, closely related to the stone- 
chat, and less nearly to tlie wheatear. Com- 
pare cuts under utoiieehat and wheatear. This is 
one of the bushchats, specified as the whin-lAishchat. It is 
llso called ffrasschat and furzechat, and shares the name 
•ftmecAo/ with its congener /'. ruWco/a. It is a common ,. /, . .^ 
British bird, whose rauge includes nearly the whole of Whinge (hwng) 
Earope, much of Africa, and a little of western Asia. The ppr. ichitiqinq. 
whinchat is 5\ inches long and 9] in extent ; the upper " '" ' ' 
For, had you kneel'd, and whin'd, and shew'd a base 
And low dejected mind, I had despis'd you. 
Fletcher, Spanish Curate, v. 1. 
Thou look'st that I should whine and beg compassion. 
Ford, Broken Heart, iv. 4. 
I am not for whining at the depravity of the times. 
Goldsmith, English Clergy. 
He never whines, although he is not more deficient in 
sensibility than many authors who do little else. 
Whipple, Ess. and Rev., I. 29. 
II. trans. Toutter in a plaintive, querulous, 
drawling manner: usually with out. 
Fool as I was, to sigh, and weep, and whine 
Out long complaints, and pine myself away. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, i. 224. 
A parson shall whine mtt God bless me, and give me not 
a farthing. Farquhar, Love and a Bottle, i. 1. 
whine (hwin), n. [< whine, c] 1. A drawling, 
plaintive utterance or tone, as the whinny of a 
dog; also, the nasal puerile tone of mean" com- 
plaint ; mean or affected complaint. 
Philip bent down his head over the dog, and as it jumped 
on him, with little bleats, and whines, and innocent ca- 
resses, he broke out into a sob. 
Thackeray, Philip. 
The bees keep their tiresome whine round the resinous 
flrs on the hill. Browning, Up at a Villa. 
2. In hunting, the noise made by an otter at 
rutting-time. HalUwdl (under hunting). 
whiner (hwi'ner), H. [< whine + -erl.] One 
who or an animal that whines. 
One pitiful whiner. Melpomene. 
(r'ai/(oii, Festivous Notes on Don Quixote, p. 242. {Latham.) 
The grumblers are of two sorts — the healthful-toned 
and the whiners. C. D. Warner, Backlog Studies, p. 141. 
■. I. ; pret. and pp. whinged, 
[Sf. also wheenge, formerly 
quhynge, whiiie ; cf . OHG. winson, MHG. win.ien, 
mourn, G. win.tKln, whine, whimper: with orig. 
verb-formative -s, from the root of whine.'} To 
whine. 
If ony whiggish, whingin' sot 
To blame poor Matthew dare. 
Burns, Epitaph on fapt. Matthew Henderson. 
whinger (hwing'er), «. [Also whinijar; prob. 
a perversion of hinijcr for hanger (cf. hing for 
hung). Ct. xchinyard.'] A dirk or long kiiife. 
Had bugles blown. 
Or sign of war been seen, . . . 
Whingers, now in friendship bare. 
The scjcial meal Ut part and share. 
Had found a bloody sheath. 
Scotl, L. of L. M., v. 7. 
whin-gray (hwin'gra), «. The common linnet, 
or whin-linnet. [North of Ireland.] 
whinidstt, «• A corrupt form found only in 
the folio editions of Shakspere's "Troilusand 
parts are variegated with blackish-brown shaft-spots and C'ressida," ii. 1. If), i^ee fmewed. 
yellowiah-brown edgings of the feathers, lightest on the wMningly (hwi'ning-li)," fl(?c. In a wliining 
rump; the under parts are uniform rich rufous: a long manner 
saperciliary stripe, a streak below the eye and blackish i..„ t '_ i m • /t ,/ ..\ m, 
auriculars, a patch on the wing, and the concealed bases of Whin-iinnet (liwiu hn et), n. The common 
the tail-feathers are white or whitish ; the eyes are brown, linnet, Linota cnnnabina. See cut under //««(.■(. 
and the bill and feet black. The whinchat haunts lowland [Stirling, Scotland.] 
pastures as well as upland wastes, nests on the ground, whin-lintip niwin'lin'til « Saine!i<i irhinihni 
and lays four to six greenish-blnc eggs, with faint re<l- *P? uniie U'win "n ii;, n oameas wiimaiat. 
dish-brown sjxjU usually zoned about the larger end; it i./>wain,'<on._ LAberdeen, Scotland.] 
is an expert flycatcher, and also feeds largely on the de- whlnnCr (hwin'er), r. and n. A variant of whin- 
structive wire-worm. I>uring .May and .lune the male h<is ny'^. [Prov. Eng. and U. S.] 
a melodious song. The whinchat has an Oriental repre- m-tjinnopk fhwilpokl n TPprlrin.; <■ whiur 4- 
•enUtive, /•. macrorhyneha of India, and several other wmnnoi-Ji. I,u«in ok;, n. Lr-euiap.s ^ wninc -t 
species are described. *"'"• -"«■('); or < whiu*, wheen. a small quantity 
or number.] 1. The least pig in a litter; the 
runt. HaUiwell. — 2. A milk-pail. Halliwell. 
Whinchat ; Pratincola rui^tra). 
species are described. 
The bir<l is commonly seen in the large gorse-coverts, 
from which it receives its njinie of HViin-'or Fnrze-cft«(. 
/'. Seebohm, Hist. Brit. Birds, I. 312. 
whincow(hwin'kou), H. Abush of furze. Hal- 
liwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
Whindle (hwin'dl), r. (. ; pret. and pp. whindled, 
WT. whindling. [Also whinnel; freq. of it'Ainc] 
To whimper or whine. Phillip.", 1706. [Prov. 
Eng. aud U. S.] 
A whindling dastard. B. Jonson, Epicccne, iv. 2. 
To whindle or whinnel, *to cry peevishly, to whimper' 
(ased of a child), is very common in East Tennessee. 
Wright has whindlf. wtiingel, and whinnel. all meaning Ui 
vhine; so Halliwell whinnel. 
Trans. Amer. Philot. Ass., XVII. l.i. 
whine (hwin), r. ; pret. and pp. whined, ppr. 
whining. [< ME. whinen, hwinen, < AS. hwinan, 
whine, = Icel. hrina, wliizz, whir. = Sw. hrina, 
whistle, = Dan. hriur. whistle, wliiiie ; cf. Icel. 
kveinn, wail, Goth. l:woinou, mourn, Skt. \/ t:ran, 
buzz.] I. intrant. 1. To utter a jilaintive pro- 
tracted sound exjjressive of distress or com 
[Prov. Eng. in both senses.] 
whinnyl (hwiii'i), «. [< ir//(«l -1- -(/l.] Abound- 
ing in whins or whin-bushes. 
The Ox-moor . . . was a fine, large, whinny, undrained, 
unimproved common. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, iv. :U. 
whinny2(hwin'i), rt. [<ii7ii«2-(- -yl.] Abound- 
ing ill or resembling wliinstonp. 
whinny'^ (hwin'i), v. i.; pret. and pp. wlii)tni<'d, 
ppr. whinnying. [A dim. or frecj. of «•/((»«. The 
word Itinny, < L. hinnirc, neigli, is different; 
both are felt to bo imitative.] To utter the 
cry of a horse; neigh. 
Sir Richard's colts came whinnt/ing and staring round 
the intruders. Kingsley, Westward Ho, v. 
whinny'^ (hwin'i), n.; pi. whinnicn (-iz). [< 
rrhinnyS, v.] The act of whinnying; a neigh. 
"With colt-like whinny and with hoggish whine 
They burst my prayer. Tennyson, St. Simeon Stylitcs. 
whinock, ». Same as whinnoclc. 
plaint; moan as a dog, or in a childish fasliion. whin-rock (hwin'rok), n. Same as whin^. 
whip 
I might as weel ha'e tried a quarry 
O' hard whin rock. 
Burns, Death and Ilr. Hornbook. 
whin-sill (hwin'sil), H. The basaltic rock 
which, in the form of intrusive sheets, is inter- 
calated in the Carboniferous limestone series 
in the north of England: so called by the min- 
ers of that region. Whin, whinstone, uhin-sUl, and 
loadstone are all names used somewhat indiscriminately 
by writers on the geology of Derbyshire, Northumberland, 
Durham, and Vorkshire : loadstone, however, belongs ra- 
ther to Derbyshire, and whin-sill to the other counties 
mentioned. 
whinstone (hwin'ston), n. [Also Sc. quliin- 
stane; said to be a corruption of *whern-stone, 
a dial. var. of quern-stone, in sense of 'stone 
suitable for making querns': see quern, quern- 
stone.J Same as whin-. 
As for gratitude, you will as soon get milk from a whin- 
stone. Ii. L. Stevenson, Master of Ballantrae, p. 27. 
He found . . . that the dark trap-rocks, or u'hinstones 
of Scotland, were likewise of igneous origin. 
Geikie, Ceol. Sketches, xii. 
The following names have been applied to the Toad- 
stones in Derbyshire : amygdaloid, black clay, basalts, 
boulder stones, brown stone, cat dirt, channel, chirt, clay, 
dunstone, ferrilite, fiery dragon, freestone, jewstone, rag- 
stone, trap, tuftstone, whinstone, secondary traps, and 
others. /;. Hunt, British Mining, p. 243. 
whintaint (hwin'tiln), n. An obsolete form of 
quintain. 
Whinyardt (hwin'yiird), n. [Also whiniard, 
whinncard, also whingard ; prob. a variant, 
simulating yarift, of whinger, ([. v.] A sword 
or hanger. 
His pistol next he cock'd anew, 
.\nd out his nut-brown whinyard. drew. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, I. iii. 48t). 
And how will you encounter St. George on Horseback, 
in his Cuirassiers Arms, his Sword, and his Whin-yard ? 
N. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, II. 0. 
whip (hwip), V. ; pret. and pp. whipped, whipt, 
ppr. whipping. [< MfL whippen, whyppen, not 
found in AS. (the alleged AS. "hweop, a whip, 
"hweopian, whip, scourge, in Somner, being un- 
authenticated) ; prob. a variant of wippen, < 
MD. wippen, shake, wag, D. wippen, skip, hasten, 
also give the strappado (cf. leip, a swipe, the 
strappado), = MLG. wippen, LG. wippen, wup- 
pen. move uji and down (> G. wippen, move up 
and down, balance, see-saw, rock, draw up on a 
gibbet and drop suddenly, give the strappado), 
= Sw. vippa, wag, jerk, give the strappado, = 
Dan. rippe, see-saw, rock, bob; a secondary 
verb, connected with OHG. wipph, MHG. wipf, 
swinging, quick motion, and MHG. G. iceij'e'n, 
cause to swing, move, wind, or turn ; causative 
of MHG. wlfen, swing; akin to L. vibrare, vi- 
brate, Skt. ■\/ rip, tremble: see vibrate. The 
Gael, cuip, a whip, and the W. chwip, a quick 
turn, chwipio, move briskly or nimbly, are prob. 
< E. : see quip. In defs. 7, etc., the verb is from 
the noun. For the change from wip (ME. wip- 
pen) to tchij), cf. whap, «'«/)!.] I. inirans. 1. 
To move suddenly and nimbly; start (in, out, 
away, etc.) with sudden quickness: as, to u-hiji 
round the corner and disappear. 
Whip to our tents, as roes run o'er land. 
Shak., L. L. L., v. 2. 309. 
You two shall be the chorus behind the arras, and whip 
out between the acts and speak. B. Jonson, Epicrone, iv. 2. 
I . . . saw her hold up her fan to a hackney-coach at a 
fiistance, who immetliately came up to her, and she whip- 
jnng into it with great nimbleness, pulled the door with 
a bowing mien. Steele, Spectator, No. 503. 
In my wakeful mood I was a good deal annoyed by a 
little rabl)it that VnpiwhipjAng in at our <lilapidateddoor 
and nibtding at our bread ami bard-tack. 
J. Burroughs, The Century, XX.X.VI. 614. 
She . . . whipped behind one of the large pillai-s, gave 
her dress a little shake at the bides and behind, ran her 
hands over her hair, and ap])cared befol'e the caller cool, 
calm, and collected. The Century, XXXVIII. 776. 
2. In angling, to cast tlie line or the fly by 
means of the rod with a motion like tliat of us- 
ing a whip ; make a cast. 
Tlicrc is no better sport than whipirimj for Bleaks in a 
boat in a sunmiers evening, with a hazle top about live or 
six foot long, and a line twice the lengtli of the Rod. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler (ed. 1653), p. 205. 
II. trans. 1. To move, throw, put. pull, cai'- 
ry, or the like, with a sudden, quick motion; 
snatcli: usually followed by some jireposition 
or adverb, as away, from, in, into, off, on, out, up, 
etc.: as, to whip out a sword or a revolver. 
I whipt nie beldnd the arras. Shak., iluch Ado, i. 3. 63. 
In came Clause, 
The old lame beggar, and whipt up Master (Joswin 
I'nder his arm, away with him. 
Ftetclwr, Beggars' Busli, v. 1. 
She ihenwhip2)edofhor domino, and threw it over Mrs. 
Atkinson. Fielding, Amelia, x. 3. 
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