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WHIXLEY, a township of England, West Riding of 
Yorkshire; 6§ miles south-south-east of Aldborough. Popu¬ 
lation 418. 
WHIXOE, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 4| miles 
west-south-west of Clare. 
To WHIZ, v. n. [from the sound that it expresses.] 
To make a loud humming noise. 
The exhalations, •whizzing in the air, 
Give so much light, that I may read by them. Shakspeare. 
WHIZ, s. A loud humming noise.—He never once 
ducked at the whiz of a cannon-ball. Guardian. 
WHO, pronoun, genitive whose; other cases whom. 
[hpa, Saxon ; wie, Dutch.] A pronoun relative, applied to 
persons. 
Oft have I seen a timely-parted ghost; 
Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodless, 
Being all descended to the lab’ring heart, 
Who, in the conflict that it holds with death. 
Attracts the same for aidance ’gainst the enemy. Shakspeare. 
Which of many.—We are still as much at a loss, who 
civil power belongs to. Locke.—As who should sap, ellip- 
tically for as one who should sap .—Hope throws a generous 
contempt upon ill usage, and looks like a handsome defiance 
of a misfortune: as who should sap, you are somewhat 
troublesome now, but I shall conquer you. Collier.—Whose 
is the genitive of which, as well as of who, and is applied to 
things.—Is there any other doctrine, whose followers are 
punished ? Addison .—It has sometimes a disjunctive sense. 
There thou tell’st of kings, and who aspire; 
Who fall, who rise, who triumphs, who do moan. Daniel. 
It is used often interrogatively; as, w/misthis? meaning, 
what is the character or name of this person ? Who shall do 
this ? that is, where shall any be found that can do this ?— 
In the grave who shall give thee thanks? Psalms. 
WHOEVER, pronoun. Any one, without limitation or 
exception. 
Whoever doth to temperance apply 
His steadfast life, and all his actions frame. 
Trust me, shall find no greater enemy. 
Than stubborn perturbation to the same. Spenser. 
WHOLE, adj. [palg, Saxon; heel, Dutch. Serenius 
notices hei/l, Icel. hel, Sueth. integer totus; oil, holh, 
Cambr. idem. This will lead us to the Greek 0 X 0 ;, the very 
same. Our word was formerly written hole.'] All; total; 
containing all.—All the whole army stood agaz’d at him. 
Shakspeare .—Complete; not defective. 
The elder did whole regiments afford, 
The younger brought his fortune and his sword. Waller. 
Uninjured; unimpaired, [hails, M. Goth, sanus.]—An¬ 
guish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me. 
2 Sam. —Well of any hurt or sickness.—When they had 
done circumcising all the people, they abode in the camp, 
till they were whole. Jos. 
WHOLE, s. The totality; no part omitted; the com¬ 
plex of all the parts.—Fear God, and keep his command¬ 
ments, for this is the whole duty of man. Ecclesiastes .—A 
system; a regular combination. 
Begin with sense, of every art the soul. 
Parts answering parts, shall slide into a whole. Pope. 
WHO'LESALE, s. Sale in the lump, not in separate 
small parcels.—The whole mass.—Some from vanity, or 
envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it 
by wholesale. Watts. 
WHO'LESALE, adj. Buying or selling in the lump, or 
in large quantities.—This cost me at the wholesale mer¬ 
chant’s a hundred drachmas; I make two hundred by selling 
it in retail. Addison. 
WHO'LESOME, adj. [heelsam, Dutch; heplsam, Teu- 
tonick; both from heel, Saxon, health .] Sound. Contrary 
to unsound in doctrine.—So the doctrine contain’d be but 
wholesome and edifying, a want of exactness in speaking 
may be overlook’d. Atterburp.— Contributing to health. 
Night not now, as ere man fell, 
Wholesome and cool and mild; but with black air 
Accompany’d, with damps and dreadful gloom. Milton. 
Preserving; salutary. Obsolete. —The Lord helpeth his 
anointed, and will hear him from his holy heaven; even 
with the wholesome strength' of his right hand. Psalm .— 
Useful; conducive to happiness or virtue.—They suffer us to 
famish, repeal daily any wholesome act established against 
the rich, and provide more piercing statutes to chain up the 
poor. Shakspeare. —Kindly; pleasing. A burlesque use. 
—I cannot make you a wholesome answer; my wit’s dis¬ 
eased. Shakspeare. 
WHO'LESOMELY, adv. Salubriously; salutiferously. 
—He caused him to be more wholesomelp kept, concerning 
his diet, than he was before. Fox. 
WHO'LESOMENESS, s. Quality of conducing to 
health; salubrity.—At Tonon they shewed us a great foun¬ 
tain of water, that is in great esteem for its wholesomeness ; 
weighing two ounces in a pound less than the same measure 
of the lake water. Addison. —Salutariness; conduciveness 
to good.—And now concerning the wholesomeness of dis¬ 
coursing. Goodman. 
WHO'LLY, adv. Completely; perfectly.—This story 
was written before Boccace; but its author being whollp lost, 
Chaucer is now become an original. Drpden. —Totally; 
in all the parts or kinds. 
Nor whollp lost we so deserv’d a prey; 
For storms repenting part of it restor’d. Drpden. 
WHOM. The accusative of who, singular and plural. 
—There be men in the world, whom you had rather have 
your son be with five hundred pounds, than some other with 
five thousand. Locke. 
WHOMSOEVER, pron. [oblique case of whosoever .] 
Any without exception.—With whomsoever thou findest thy 
goods, let him not live. Gen. 
WHOO'BUB, s. Hubbub. See Hubbub. —In this time 
of lethargy, I pick’d and cut most of their festival purses: 
and had not the old man come in with a whoobub against 
his daughter, and scar’d my choughs from the chaff, I had 
not left a purse in the whole army. Shakspeare. 
WHOOP, s. A shout of pursuit. 
Let them breathe a-while, and then 
Cry whoop, and set them on again, Hudibras. 
\Upupa, Latin.] A bird. Diet. 
To WHOOP, v. 7i. To shout.—One cries and shouts; 
another sings; whoops, and hallooes. Burton. 
To WHOOP, v. a. To insult with shouts. 
While he trusts me, ’twere so base a part 
To fawn, and yet betray; I shou’d be hiss’d 
And whoop'd in hell for that ingratitude. Drpdeii. 
To WHOOT, v. n. [See To Hoot.] To shout.— 
Satyrs—run whooting to the hills. Draptoii. 
To WHOOT, v. a. To insult with shouts. 
The man, who shews his heart. 
Is whooted for his nudities. Young. 
WHORE, s. [hupe, Sax.; hoere, Dutch; hore , Dan.; 
hora, Su. Goth.; hoera, Icel.] A prostitute; a woman 
who receives men for money. 
Orontes 
Conveys his wealth to Tiber’s hungry shores. 
And fattens Italy with foreign whores. Drpden. 
A woman who converses unlawfully with men; a forni¬ 
catress ; an adulteress; a strumpet. 
To put out the word whore, thou dost me woo, 
Throughout my book; troth, put out woman too. 
B. Jonson. 
To WHORE, v. a. To corrupt with regard to chastity. 
Thou kept’st me brave at court, and whor'd me; 
Then married me to a young noble gentleman. 
And whor'd me still. Beaum. and FI. 
To WHORE, v. n. To converse unlawfully with the 
other sex. 
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