AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
whetter: one who, or that which, whets, sharpens, or stimulates.-a tippler; one who drinks whets.
whew: a sound like a half-formed whistle, expressing astonishment, scorn, or dislike.-to whistle with a shrill pipe, like a plover.
whewellite: calcium oxalate, occurring in colorless or white monoclinic crystals.
whey: the serum, or watery part, of milk, separated from the more thick or coagulable part, esp. in the process of making cheese.
wheyey: of the nature of, or containing, whey; resembling whey; wheyish.
which: of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.-a interrogative pronoun, used both substantively and adjectively, and in direct and indirect questions, to ask for, or refer to, an individual person or thing among several of a class; as, which man is it? which woman was it? which is the house? he asked which route he should take; which is best, to live or to die?  see the note under what, pron., 1.-a relative pronoun, used esp. in referring to an antecedent noun or clause, but sometimes with reference to what is specified or implied in a sentence, or to a following noun or clause (generally involving a reference, however, to something which has preceded). it is used in all numbers and genders, and was formerly used of persons.-a compound relative or indefinite pronoun, standing for any one which, whichever, that which, those which, the . . . which, and the like; as, take which you will.
whichsoever: whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
whidah bird: any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to the genus vidua, native of asia and africa. in the breeding season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. called also vida finch, whidah finch, whydah bird, whydah finch, widow bird, and widow finch.
whiff: a sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke.-a glimpse; a hasty view.-the marysole, or sail fluke.-to throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.-to carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff or blow away.-to emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff.
whiffing: of whiff-the act of one who, or that which, whiffs.-a mode of fishing with a hand line for pollack, mackerel, and the like.
whiffle: to waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.-to change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.-to disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.-to wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.-a fife or small flute.
whiffler: one who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler.-one who plays on a whiffle; a fifer or piper.-an officer who went before procession to clear the way by blowing a horn, or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at the head of a procession; a harbinger.-the golden-eye.
whig: acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.-one of a political party which grew up in england in the seventeenth century, in the reigns of charles i. and ii., when great contests existed respecting the royal prerogatives and the rights of the people. those who supported the king in his high claims were called tories, and the advocates of popular rights, of parliamentary power over the crown, and of toleration to dissenters, were, after 1679, called whigs. the terms liberal and radical have now generally superseded whig in english politics.  see the note under tory.-a friend and supporter of the american revolution; -- opposed to tory, and royalist.-one of the political party in the united states from about 1829 to 1856, opposed in politics to the democratic party.-of or pertaining to the whigs.
whiggamore: a whig; -- a cant term applied in contempt to scotch presbyterians.
whiggish: of or pertaining to whigs; partaking of, or characterized by, the principles of whigs.
while: space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent.-that which requires time; labor; pains.-to cause to pass away pleasantly or without irksomeness or disgust; to spend or pass; -- usually followed by away.-to loiter.-during the time that; as long as; whilst; at the same time that; as, while i write, you sleep.-hence, under which circumstances; in which case; though; whereas.-until; till.
whilk: a kind of mollusk, a whelk.-the scoter.-which.
whim: the european widgeon.-a sudden turn or start of the mind; a temporary eccentricity; a freak; a fancy; a capricious notion; a humor; a caprice.-a large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes; -- called also whim gin, and whimsey.-to be subject to, or indulge in, whims; to be whimsical, giddy, or freakish.
whimbrel: any one of several species of small curlews, especially the european species (numenius phaeopus), called also jack curlew, half curlew, stone curlew, and tang whaup.  see illustration in appendix.
whimling: one given to whims; hence, a weak, childish person; a child.
whimper: to cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain; as, a child whimpers.-to utter in alow, whining tone.-a low, whining, broken cry; a low, whining sound, expressive of complaint or grief.
whimsey: alt. of whimsy-to fill with whimseys, or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.
whimsical: full of, or characterized by, whims; actuated by a whim; having peculiar notions; queer; strange; freakish.-odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic.
whimsicality: the quality or state of being whimsical; whimsicalness.
whimsicalness: the quality or state of being whimsical; freakishness; whimsical disposition.
whimsy: a whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit.-a whim.-a whimsey.
whimwham: a whimsical thing; an odd device; a trifle; a trinket; a gimcrack.-a whim, or whimsey; a freak.
whin: gorse; furze.  see furze.-woad-waxed.-same as whinstone.
whinberry: the english bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze.
whinchat: a small warbler (pratincola rubetra) common in europe; -- called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet.
whine: to utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely.-to utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way; as, to whine out an excuse.-a plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.
whinger: a kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a weapon.
whinny: to utter the ordinary call or cry of a horse; to neigh.-the ordinary cry or call of a horse; a neigh.-abounding in whin, gorse, or furze.
whinstone: a provincial name given in england to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.
whinyard: a sword, or hanger.-the shoveler.-the poachard.
whip: to strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.-to drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.-to punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.-to apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.-to thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat.-to beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.-to conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass.-to overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; -- often with about, around, or over.-to sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle.-to take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like.-to hoist or purchase by means of a whip.-to secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff.-to fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip.-to move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner.-an instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod.-a coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip.-one of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread.-the length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.-a small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies.-the long pennant.  see pennant (a)-a huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in.-a person (as a member of parliament) appointed to enforce party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes are needed.-a call made upon members of a parliament party to be in their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken.
whip-poor-will: an american bird (antrostomus vociferus) allied to the nighthawk and goatsucker; -- so called in imitation of the peculiar notes which it utters in the evening.
whip-shaped: shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or stem.
whip-tom-kelly: a vireo (vireo altiloquus) native of the west indies and florida; -- called also black-whiskered vireo.
whipcord: a kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used for making whiplashes.
whipgraft: to graft by cutting the scion and stock in a certain manner.  see whip grafting, under grafting.
whiplash: the lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted.
whipparee: a large sting ray (dasybatis, / trygon, sayi) native of the southern united states. it is destitute of large spines on the body and tail.-a large sting ray (rhinoptera bonasus, or r. quadriloba) of the atlantic coast of the united states. its snout appears to be four-lobed when viewed in front, whence it is also called cow-nosed ray.
whipper: one who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping.-one who raises coal or merchandise with a tackle from a chip's hold.-a kind of simple willow.
whipperin: a huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering, and whips them in, if necessary, to the of chase.-hence, one who enforces the discipline of a party, and urges the attendance and support of the members on all necessary occasions.
whippersnapper: a diminutive, insignificant, or presumptuous person.
whippletree: the pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces, or tugs, of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree.  see singletree.-the cornel tree.
whipsaw: a saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw.
whipstitch: a tailor; -- so called in contempt.-anything hastily put or stitched together; hence, a hasty composition.-the act or process of whipstitching.-to rafter; to plow in ridges, as land.
whipstock: the rod or handle to which the lash of a whip is fastened.
whipworm: a nematode worm (trichocephalus dispar) often found parasitic in the human intestine. its body is thickened posteriorly, but is very long and threadlike anteriorly.
whir: to whirl round, or revolve, with a whizzing noise; to fly or more quickly with a buzzing or whizzing sound; to whiz.-to hurry a long with a whizzing sound.-a buzzing or whizzing sound produced by rapid or whirling motion; as, the whir of a partridge; the whir of a spinning wheel.
whirl: to turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.-to remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry.-to be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.-to move hastily or swiftly.-a turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion; as, the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel.-anything that moves with a whirling motion.-a revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.-a whorl.  see whorl.
whirlabout: something that whirls or turns about in a rapid manner; a whirligig.
whirlbat: anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers.
whirlbone: the huckle bone.-the patella, or kneepan.
whirligig: a child's toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top.-anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses.-a mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity.-any one of numerous species of beetles belonging to gyrinus and allied genera. the body is firm, oval or boatlike in form, and usually dark colored with a bronzelike luster. these beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with great celerity in a gyrating, or circular, manner, but they are also able to dive and swim rapidly. the larva is aquatic. called also weaver, whirlwig, and whirlwig beetle.
whirling: of whirl-a. & n. from whirl, v. t.
whirlpool: an eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like.-a sea monster of the whale kind.
whirlwind: a violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. it usually has a rapid progressive motion.-fig.: a body of objects sweeping violently onward.
whirtle: a perforated steel die through which wires or tubes are drawn to form them.
whisk: a game at cards; whist.-the act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of something light; a sudden motion or quick puff.-a small bunch of grass, straw, twigs, hair, or the like, used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom, as of broom corn.-a small culinary instrument made of wire, or the like, for whisking or beating eggs, cream, etc.-a kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.-an impertinent fellow.-a plane used by coopers for evening chines.-to sweep, brush, or agitate, with a light, rapid motion; as, to whisk dust from a table; to whisk the white of eggs into a froth.-to move with a quick, sweeping motion.-to move nimbly at with velocity; to make a sudden agile movement.
whisker: one who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.-formerly, the hair of the upper lip; a mustache; -- usually in the plural.-that part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, or upon the chin, or upon both; as, side whiskers; chin whiskers.-a hair of the beard.-one of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.-iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to spread, or guy out, the stays, etc.
whiskered: formed into whiskers; furnished with whiskers; having or wearing whiskers.-having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the cheeks.
whisket: a basket; esp., a straw provender basket.-a small lathe for turning wooden pins.
whiskey: same as whisky, a liquor.-alt. of whisky-an intoxicating liquor distilled from grain, potatoes, etc., especially in scotland, ireland, and the united states. in the united states, whisky is generally distilled from maize, rye, or wheat, but in scotland and ireland it is often made from malted barley.
whisky: a light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also tim-whiskey.-alt. of whiskey
whisper: to speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound.  see whisper, n.-to make a low, sibilant sound or noise.-to speak with suspicion, or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting.-to utter in a low and nonvocal tone; to say under the breath; hence, to mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper.-to address in a whisper, or low voice.-to prompt secretly or cautiously; to inform privately.-a low, soft, sibilant voice or utterance, which can be heard only by those near at hand; voice or utterance that employs only breath sound without tone, friction against the edges of the vocal cords and arytenoid cartilages taking the place of the vibration of the cords that produces tone; sometimes, in a limited sense, the sound produced by such friction as distinguished from breath sound made by friction against parts of the mouth.  see voice, n., 2, and guide to pronunciation, // 5, 153, 154.-a cautious or timorous speech.-something communicated in secret or by whispering; a suggestion or insinuation.-a low, sibilant sound.
whisperer: one who whispers.-a tattler; one who tells secrets; a conveyer of intelligence secretly; hence; a backbiter; one who slanders secretly.
whispering: of whisper-a. & n. from whisper. v. t.
whisperingly: in a whisper, or low voice; in a whispering manner; with whispers.
whist: be silent; be still; hush; silence.-a certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires silence and close attention. it is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed.-to hush or silence.-to be or become silent or still; to be hushed or mute.-not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet.
whistle: to make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds.-to make a shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument, somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp, shrill tone.-to sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air.-to form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air.-to send, signal, or call by a whistle.-a sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a similar sound; the sound used by a sportsman in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle.-the shrill sound made by wind passing among trees or through crevices, or that made by bullet, or the like, passing rapidly through the air; the shrill noise (much used as a signal, etc.) made by steam or gas escaping through a small orifice, or impinging against the edge of a metallic bell or cup.-an instrument in which gas or steam forced into a cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see steam whistle, under steam).-the mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs of whistling.
whistlefish: a gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.
whistler: one who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.-the ring ousel.-the widgeon.-the golden-eye.-the golden plover and the gray plover.-the hoary, or northern, marmot (arctomys pruinosus).-the whistlefish.
whit: the smallest part or particle imaginable; a bit; a jot; an iota; -- generally used in an adverbial phrase in a negative sentence.
white: reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; -- the opposite of black or dark; as, white paper; a white skin.-destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.-having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.-gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.-characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favorable.-regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.-the color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all colors; the opposite of black; whiteness.  see the note under color, n., 1.-something having the color of snow; something white, or nearly so; as, the white of the eye.-specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot.-a person with a white skin; a member of the white, or caucasian, races of men.-a white pigment; as, venice white.-any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to pieris, and allied genera in which the color is usually white.  see cabbage butterfly, under cabbage.-to make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.
white friar: a mendicant monk of the carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order.  see carmelite.
white-eye: any one of several species of small old world singing of the genus zosterops, as zosterops palpebrosus of india, and z. c/rulescens of australia. the eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. called also bush creeper, and white-eyed tit.
white-face: a white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; -- called also white-blaze.
white-foot: a white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
white-livered: having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly.
white-pot: a kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot.
whitebait: the young of several species of herrings, especially of the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in england.-a small translucent fish (salanx chinensis) abundant at certain seasons on the coasts of china and japan, and used in the same manner as the european whitebait.
whitebeam: the common beam tree of england (pyrus aria); -- so called from the white, woolly under surface of the leaves.
whiteboy: a favorite.-one of an association of poor roman catholics which arose in ireland about 1760, ostensibly to resist the collection of tithes, the members of which were so called from the white shirts they wore in their nocturnal raids.
whitecap: the european redstart; -- so called from its white forehead.-the whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head.-the european tree sparrow.-a wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.
whitefish: any one of several species of coregonus, a genus of excellent food fishes allied to the salmons. they inhabit the lakes of the colder parts of north america, asia, and europe. the largest and most important american species (c. clupeiformis) is abundant in the great lakes, and in other lakes farther north. called also lake whitefish, and oswego bass.-the menhaden.-the beluga, or white whale.
whiten: to grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.-to make white; to bleach; to blanch; to whitewash; as, to whiten a wall; to whiten cloth.
whitener: one who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher.