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To learn the unlucky art of wheedling fools. Dryden. 
WIIEE'DLER, s. One who wheedles. 
WHEEL, s. [hpeol, Sax. wiel, Dutch; Mod, Icel.; from 
the M. Goth, walwian, to roll. Serenius.] A circular body 
that turns round upon an axis—Carnality within raises all 
the combustions without; this is the great •wheel to which the 
clock owes its motion. Dec. of Chr. Piety. 
Fortune sits all breathless, and admires to feel 
A fate so weighty, that it stops her wheel. Dry den. 
A circular body.—Let go thy hold when a great wheel 
runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following it. 
Shakspearc. —A carriage that runs upon wheels. 
Through the proud street she moves the public gaze. 
The turning wheel before the palace stays. Pope. 
An instrument on which criminals are tortured. 
Let them pull all about mine ears, present me 
Death on the wheel, or at wild horses’ heels. Shakspeare. 
The instrument of spinning. 
Verse sweetens care, however rude the sound. 
All at her work the village maiden sings; 
Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around. 
Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. Giffard. 
Rotation; revolution.—Look not too long upon these 
turning wheels of vicissitude, lest we become giddy. Bacon. 
—A compass about; a track approaching to circularity.—He 
throws his flight in many an aery wheel. Milton. 
To WHEEL, v. n. To move on wheels. 
Who sees a clock moving in every part, 
A sailing pinnace, and a wheeling cart, 
But thinks, that reason, ere it came to pass. 
The first impulsive cause and mover was. Sir J. Davies. 
To turn on an axis.—The moon carried about the earth 
always shews the same face to us, not once wheeling upon 
her own centre. Bentley. —To revolve; to have a rotatory 
motion. 
The course of justice Wiee/7/ about. 
And left thee but a very prey to time. Shakspeare. 
To turn; to have vicissitudes; to fetch a compass. 
Spies 
Held me in chace, that I was forc’d to wheel 
Three or four miles about. Shakspeare. 
To WHEEL, v. a. To put into a rotatory motion; to make 
to whirl round. 
Heav’n rowl’d 
Her motions, as the great first Mover’s hand 
First wheels their course. Milton. 
WHEE'LBARROW, .s. A carriage driven forward on 
one wheel.—Carry bottles in a wheelbarrow upon rough 
oround, but not filled full, but leave some air. Bacon. 
° WHEELDRAKE, a parish of England, East Riding of 
Yorkshire; 7 miles south-east of York. Population 581. 
WHEE'LER, s. A maker of wheels.—After local names, 
the most have been derived from occupations, as Potter, 
Smith, Brasier, Wheeler, Wright. Camden. 
WHEELER, a river of Wales, in Denbighshire, which 
runs into the Cluyd, about 3 miles north of Denbigh. 
WHEELING, a post town of the United States, in Ohio 
county, Virginia, on the Ohio, at the mouth of the Wheel¬ 
ing. "it is built on a high bank, principally on one street, 
and contains a court-house, a jail, a market-house, a bank, a 
church, about 200 houses, and has some trade and manufac¬ 
tures. The Cumberland road, which is now open, intersects 
the Ohio at this place. There are in this place two potteries 
for stone-ware, a nail factory, a market-house, a rope-walk, 
and boat-yard; 8 miles east of St. Clairsville, 28 west-by¬ 
south of Washington, Pennsylvania, 95 below Pittsburg, and 
370 north-west of Richmond. 
WHEELING, a river of the United States, in Virginia, 
which runs into the Ohio, at the town of Wheeling. 
WHEELING, or Indian Wheeling, a river of the 
United States, in Ohio, which runs into the Ohio, nearly 
opposite the town of Wheeling. 
WHEELING, a township of the United States, in Guern¬ 
sey county, Ohio. Population 171.—2. A township of 
Belmont county, Ohio. Population 656. 
WHEELOCK, a river of England, in Cheshire, which, 
after a course of about 12 miles from Mowcap Hill, runs 
into the Dan, below Middlewich. 
WHEELOCK, a small hamlet of England, on the banks 
of the foregoing river; 1| mile south-south-west of Sand- 
bach. 
WHEELOCK, a post township of the United States, in ; 
Caledonia county, Vermont; 40 miles north-east of Mont-' 
pelier. Population 963. 
WHEELSLETT, a township of England, parish of Long 
Benton, Northumberland. 
WHEELTON, a township of England, in Lancashire; 4 
miles north-east of Chorley. Population 884. 
WHEE'LWRIGHT, s. A maker of wheel carriages.—It 
is a tough wood, and all heart, being good for the wheel¬ 
wrights. A1 or timer. 
WHEE'LY, adj. Circular; suitable to rotation. 
Hinds exercise the pointed steel 
On the hard rock, and give a wheelly form 
To the expected grinder. Phillips. 
To WHEEZE, v. n. [hpeopon, Sax.] To breathe with 
noise.—It is easy to run into ridicule the best descriptions, 
when once a man is in the humour of laughing, till he 
•wheezes at his own dull jest. Dry den.—Wheezing asthma 
loth to stir. Swift. 
WHELK, s. [See To Welk.] An inequality ; a protu¬ 
berance.—His face is all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, 
and flames of fire. Shakspeare. —A pustule. [See Weal.] 
WHE'LKED. See Welked. 
WHE’LKY, adj. Embossed; protuberant; rounded. 
Ne aught the whel/cy pearls esteemeth he. 
Which are from Indian seas brought far away. Spenser. 
To WHELM, v. a. [hulian, M. Goth, hilma, or hwilma,) 
Icel. tegere. Serenius.'] To cover with something not to be 
thrown off - ; to bury. 
On those cursed engines triple row. 
They saw them whelm'd, and all their confidence 
Under the weight of mountains bury’d deep. Milton. 
To throw upon something so as to cover or bury it.—The 
lady threw out the liquor, whelmed it on the cloth, and 
turned it round three times. Invisible Spy. —117; elm some 
things over them, and keep them there. Mortimer. 
WHELNETHAN, Great and Little, adjoining parishes 
of England, in Suffolk; 4 miles south-east of Bury St. 
Edmund’s. 
WHELP, s. [ 'we/p, Dutch; huolpar, Icel.; hwalp, Swed.] 
The young of a dog; a puppy. 
They call’d us, for our fierceness, English dogs, 
Now, like their whelps, we crying run away. Shakspeare. 
The young of any beast of prey.—The lion’s whelp shall 
be to himself unknown. Shakspeare. —A son. In contempt. 
The young whelp of Talbot’s raging brood 
Did flesh his puny sword in Frenchmen’s blood. 
Shakspeare. 
A young man. In contempt. 
Slave, I will strike your soul out with my foot, 
Let me but find you again with such a face: 
You whelp. B. Jonson. 
To WHELP, v. n. To bring young. Applied to beasts, 
generally beasts of prey. 
A lioness hath whelped in the streets, 
And graves have yawn’d. Shakspeare. 
WHELPINGTON, Kirk, a township of England, in 
Northumberland ; 15 miles west of Morpeth. 
WHELPINGTON, West, another township in the above 
county, half a mile from the foregoing. 
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