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At his nurse’s tears 
He whin'd and roar’d away your victory. 
That pages blush’d at him. Shakspeare. 
WHINE, s. Plaintive noise; mean or affected com¬ 
plaint. 
Thy hateful whine of woe 
Breaks in upon my sorrows, and distracts 
My jarring senses with thy beggar’s cry. Rowe. 
WHINEBAH. See Winnebah. 
WHI'NER, s. One who whines.—One pitiful whiner, 
Melpomene. Gayton. 
WH1NFELL, a township of England, in Westmoreland; 
6^ miles north-east-by-north of Kendal.—2. A township in 
Cumberland ; 3 miles south of Cockermouth. 
WHINHOW, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
Thursby, Cumberland. 
WHINNIQN, or WHINNYAN, a small but beautiful lake 
of Scotland, in the stewartry of Kirkcudbright, which abounds 
with delicious yellow trout. 
WHI'NNY, adj. Abounding with whins.—Gateskale 
being a whinny place. Nicholson and Burn. 
To WHI'NNY, v. n. [hinnio , Lat. from the sound.] 
To make a noise like a horse or colt.—The horse—while he is 
whinneying. More. 
WHI'NYARD, s. [pinnan and ape, to gain honour, 
Saxon. Skinner. Perhaps in contempt from whin, a tool 
to cut whins .] A sword, in contempt. 
He snatch’d his whinyard up, that fled 
When he was falling off his steed. Hudibras. 
To WHIP, v. a. [hpeopan, Saxon; wippen, Dutch.] 
To strike with any thing tough and flexible. 
He took 
The harness’d steeds, that still with horror shook, 
And plies them with the lash, and whips ’em on; 
And, as he whips, upbraids ’em with his son. Addison. 
To sew slightly.—In haif whipt muslin needles useless lie. 
Gay. —To drive with lashes. 
This unheard sauciness, and boyish troops, 
The king doth smile at; and is well prepar’d 
To whip this dwarfish war, these pigmy arms, 
From out the circle of his territories. Shakspeare. 
To correct with lashes. 
I’ll leave you to the hearing of the cause. 
Hoping you’ll find good cause to whip them all. 
Shakspeare. 
To lash with sarcasm.—They would whip me with their 
fine wits, till I was as crest-fallen as a dried pear. Shak¬ 
speare. —To inwrap.—Its string is firmly whipt about with 
small gut, that it may the easier move in the edge of the row- 
ler. Moxon. —To take any thing nimbly: always with a 
particle ascertaining the sense; as, out, on, up, away. A 
ludicrous use. 
In his lawless fit, 
Behind the arras hearing something stir, 
He whipt his rapier out, and cries, a rat! 
And in this brainish apprehension kills 
The unseen good old man. Shakspeare. 
To WHIP, v. n. To move nimbly. A ludicrous word. 
—The simple ’squire made a sudden start to follow; but the 
justice of the quorum whipped between. Tatler. 
WHIP, s. [hpeop, Sax.] An instrument of correction 
tough and pliant. 
High on her head she rears two twisted snakes; 
Her chain she rattles, and her whip she shakes. Dryden. 
WHIP and spur. With the utmost haste. 
Each staunch polemick 
Came whip and spur, and dash’d thro’ thin and thick. 
Pope. 
WHI'PCORD, s. Cord of which lashes are made.—In 
Raphael’s first works are many small foldings, often repeated, 
which look like so many whipcords. Dryden. 
Vox.. XXIV. No. 1661. 
WHI'PGRAFTING, s. A kind of grafting. 
WHI'PHAND, s. Advantage over.—The archangel, 
when discord was restive, and would not be drawn from her 
beloved monastery with fair words, has the whiphand of her, 
and drags her out with many stripes. Dryden. 
WHl'PLASH, s. The lash or small end of a whip.— 
Have whiplash wel knotted and cartrope inough. Tusser. 
WHI'PPER, s. One who punishes with whipping.— 
Love is merely a madness, and deserves as well a dark-house 
and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not 
so punished is, that the whippcrs are in love too. Shak¬ 
speare. 
WHI'PPING, s. Correction with a whip or rod.—Let it 
be with us, as with some good-natured children, whom I 
have seen, even after their whippings, unquiet, till with their 
continued tears and importunities they have made their peace 
with their offended parent. Bp. Hall. 
WHIPP1NGHAM, a parish of England, in the Isle of 
Wight; 3 miles north-by-east of Newport. Population 1619. 
WHIPPINGPOST, s. A pillar to which criminals are 
bound when they are lashed. 
Could not the whippingpost prevail, 
With all its rhet’rick, nor the jail. 
To keep from flaying scourge thy skin. 
And ankle free from iron gin ? Hudibras. 
WHI'PSAW, s. The whipsaw is used by joiners to saw 
such great pieces of stuff - that the handsaw will not easily 
reach through. Moxon. 
WH1PSNADE, a parish of England, in Bedfordshire; 3 
miles south-by-west of Dunstable. 
WHl'PSTAFF, s. A piece of wood fastened to the helm 
which the steersman holds in his hand to move the helm and 
turn the ship. Bailey. 
WHIPSTER, 5. A nimble fellow. 
I am not valiant neither; 
But ev’ry puny whipster gets my sword. Shakspeare. 
WHIPSTOCK, s. The handle of a whip; the whip 
itself. 
By his rusty outside he appears 
To have practis’d more the whipstock than the lance. 
Shakspeare. 
WHIPT, for whipped. 
In Bridewel a number be stript, 
Lesse worthie than theese to be whipt. Tusser. 
To WHIR, or To Whi'rry, v. n. [of the same origin 
as whirl ; which see. Dr. Johnson notices whirring as an 
adjective, with the example from Pope; but mistakenly calls 
it a word formed in imitation of the sound expressed by it.] 
Gathering dust with whirring fiercely round. Chapman. 
To WHIR, v. a. To hurry. The following is the origi¬ 
nal reading. Malone. 
This world to me is like a lasting storm. 
Whirring me from my friends. Shakspeare. 
To WHIRL, v. a. [whirla, Icel. turbine versari con- 
tinuo: consent, linguis Septentr. Sic hwairban, M. Goth, 
transire, ab antiquiss. Scyth. yrra, whirra, sursum et deor- 
sum ferri.] To turn round rapidly. 
My thoughts are whirled like a potter’s wheel: 
I know not where I am, nor what I do. Shakspeare. 
To WHIRL, », n. To turn round rapidly. 
Five moons were seen to-night. 
Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about 
The other four in wond’rous motion. Shakspeare. 
To move hastily. 
She what he swears regards no more 
Than the deaf rocks when the loud billows roar; 
But whirl'd away, to shun his hateful sight. 
Hid in the forest. Dryden. 
WHIRL, s. Gyration; quick rotation; circular motion ; 
rapid circumvolution. 
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