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It is sometimes used for whatever. —It is used adverbially 
for partly; in part.—-The enemy having his country wasted, 
i what by himself, and what by the soldiers, findeth succour 
in no place. Spenser .—When they come to cast up the pro¬ 
fit and loss, what betwixt force, interest, or good manners, the 
adventurer escapes well, if he can but get off. L'Estrange. 
What Ho ! An interjection of calling. 
What ho ! thou genius of the clime, what ho ! 
Ly’st thou asleep beneath these hills of snow ? 
Stretch out thy lazy limbs. Dryden. 
WHAT, s. Fare ; things ; matter. Obsolete. —Such 
homely what as serves the simple clown. Spenser. 
WHATBOROUGH, a hamlet of England, in Berkshire; 
10_y miles east of Leicester. 
WHATCOTE, a parish of England, in Warwickshire, 
near Shipston-upon-Stour. 
WHATCROFT, a hamlet of England, in Cheshire; 3 
miles south-east of Northwich. 
WHATELY, a post township of the United States, in 
Franklin county, Massachusetts; 10 miles north of North¬ 
ampton, and 90 west of Boston. Population 891. 
WHATE'VER, Wha'tso, or Whatsoever, pronouns. 
Whatso is not now in use. —Having one nature or another; 
being one or another either generically, specifically, or nume¬ 
rically. 
To forfeit all your goods, lands, tenements, 
Castles, and whatsoever, and to be 
Out of the king’s protection. Shakspeare. 
Any thing, be it what it will.— Whatsoever our liturgy 
hath more than their’s, they cut it off. Hooker. 
Whatever thing 
The sithe of time mows down, devour. Milton. 
The same, be it this or that.—Be whate'er Vitruvius was 
before. Pope. —All that; the whole that; all particulars 
that. 
From whence he views with his black-lidded eye, 
Whatso the heaven in his wide vault contains. Spenser. 
Whate'er the ocean pales or sky inclips 
Is thine. Shakspeare. 
At once came forth whatever creeps. Milton. 
WH ATFIELD, a parish of England, in Suffolk; miles 
south-east of Bildeston. 
WHATLEY’S MILLS, a post village of the United States, 
in Morgan county, Georgia. 
WHATLEY, a parish of England, in Somersetshire, si¬ 
tuated on the small stream called Whatley water, which falls 
into the Frome; 2 miles north-west of Frome.—2. A ham¬ 
let in Warwickshire, near Tamworth. 
WHATTON, Long, a parish of England, in Leicester¬ 
shire ; 4 miles north-west of Longborough. Population 782. 
WHATTON-UPON-SMITE, a parish of England, in 
Nottinghamshire, situated on the river Smite, north-east of 
Bingham. 
WHEAL, s. [See Weal.] A pustule; a small swelling 
filled with matter.—The humour cannot transpire, whereupon 
it corrupts and raises little wheals or blisters. Wiseman. 
WHEAT, s. [hpeace, Saxon; weyde, Dutch; hwaitei, 
M. Goth.; hweite, Icel. from hwit, albus. Serenius. ] The 
grain of which bread is chiefly made. See Triticum.— He 
mildews the white wheat., and hurts the poor creature of the 
earth. Shakspeare. 
WHEAT PLAINS, a post village of the United States, in 
Pike county, Pennsylvania. 
WHEATCROFT, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
Crich, Derbyshire. 
WHEA'TEAR, s. [ ocuanthe , Lat.] A small bird, very 
delicate.—What cook would lose her time in picking larks, 
wheatcars, and other small birds ? Swift. 
WHEA'TEN, adj. Made of wheat.—There is a project 
on foot for transporting our best wheaten straw to Dun- 
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stable, and obliging us by law to take off yearly so many 
tons of the straw hats. Swift. 
WHEATENIIURST, a parish of England, in Gloucester¬ 
shire ; 7 miles north-west of Stroud. 
WHEATFIELD, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire; 
2 miles south of Tetsworth. 
WHEATFIELD, a township of the United States, in In¬ 
diana county, Pennsylvania. Population 1475. 
WHEATHAMPSTEAD, a village and parish of England, 
in the county of Hertford, situated on the river Lea. It 
stands on high ground, and in a pleasant situation. Its 
church is an ancient building, in the form of a cathedral; 4 
miles west-south-west of Welwyn. Population 1250. 
WHEATHILL, a parish of England, in Salop; 9 miles 
north-east of Ludlow.—2. A parish in Somersetshire; 4 
miles west-by-south of Castle Cary. 
WHEATLEY, or Whateley, a hamlet of England, in 
Oxfordshire, divided from Tetsworth by the river Thame, 
over which it has a bridge; 5£ miles from Oxford. Popu¬ 
lation 764. 
WHEATLEY, a township of England, in Lancashire 
8f miles west-by-south of Clitheroe.—2. A hamlet in thl 
West Riding of Yorkshire; 5 miles west-north-west of Otley e 
—3. Another township in Yorkshire, near Doncaster. 
WHEATLEY, Curr, a township of England, in Lanca¬ 
shire, west-south-west of Colne. 
WHEATLEY, North, a parish of England, in Notting¬ 
hamshire ; 5 miles north-east of East Retford. 
WHEATLEY, South, a parish, united with the foregoing, 
and half a mile distant. 
WHEATLY (Francis), was born in London in 1747, 
and received his first instruction as an artist in Shipley’s 
drawing-school. Whilst young he received several pre¬ 
miums from the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. 
He does not appear to have had any particular instructor in 
painting, but by his own industry and ingenuity contrived to 
obtain some knowledge of it; and having formed an inti¬ 
macy with Mr. Mortimer, whom he assisted in painting the 
ceiling at Brockett-hall, by that circumstance obtained 
considerable improvement. He had great employment in 
painting small whole-length portraits, to which he added 
landscape back-grounds with considerable taste. After prac¬ 
tising some years in London, he went to Ireland, and was 
much employed in Dublin, where he painted a large picture 
of the Irish house of commons, with portraits of the most 
considerable political characters, by which he acquired great 
reputation. On his return to London he painted a picture 
of the soldiery attacking the rioters in 1780, which was well 
engraved by Heath. 
About this time he appears to have changed his practice, 
and painted rural and domestic subjects in a manner which 
evidently exhibits them to have been the offspring of the 
natural bent of his mind. He was engaged in the Shak¬ 
speare Gallery, but failed to excite interest: neither his talent 
nor his style was suited to the character of the subjects given 
to him. In the slighter subjects of common life he was at 
home, and he touched them and composed them in a most 
agreeable manner, and with a very pleasing tone of colour: 
these he executed with rapidity, and, as he always sold them, 
he acquired sufficient money to indulge a natural propensity 
to the pleasures of the table. Hence he became a martyr to 
the gout, and died of that disease in 1801, at the age of 54. 
He was elected an academician in 1791. 
WHEATON, Aston, a township of England, in Staf¬ 
fordshire; 41 miles west-by-south of Penkridge. Popula¬ 
tion 579. 
WHEA'TPLUM, s. A sort of Plum. Ainsworth. 
WHEATSBOROUGH, a post township of the United 
States, in Huron county, Ohio. 
To WHEE'DLE, v. a. [It is apparently derived from 
the Saxon abpehan, seducerc.'] To entice by soft words; 
to flatter; to persuade by kind words. 
His sire, 
From Mars his forge sent to Minerva’s schools 
To 
