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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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7,414 words match “HIS”

WHISKERED a. 2 definitions

Formed into whiskers; furnished with whiskers; having or wearing whiskers. Our forefathers, a grave, whiskered race. Cowper.

Being without whiskers.

WHISKET n. 2 definitions

A basket; esp., a straw provender basket. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Same as Whisky, a liquor.

WHISKEY; WHISKY n.

A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also tim- whiskey.

A shallow drinking bowl. [Prov. Eng.] Ray.

WHISKING a. 2 definitions

Sweeping along lightly.

WHISKY RING; WHISKEY RING n.

A conspiracy of distillers and government officials during the administration of President Grant to defraud the government of the excise taxes. The frauds were detected in 1875 through the efforts of the Secretary of the Treasury. B. H. Bristow, and most of the offenders were convicted.

WHISKY; WHISKEY n.

oes, 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. Bourbon whisky, corn whisky made in Bourbon County, Kentucky. -- Crooked whisky. See under Crooked. -- Whis…

WHISKYFIED; WHISKEYFIED a.

Drunk with whisky; intoxicated. [Humorous] Thackeray.

WHISP n. 2 definitions

WHISPER v. 10 definitions

to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound. See Whisper, n.

WHISPERER n. 2 definitions

One who whispers.

a. & n. from Whisper. v. t. Whispering gallery, or Whispering dome, one of such a form that sounds produced in certain parts of it are concentrated by reflection from the walls to another part, so that whispers or feeble sounds are audible at a much greater distance than under ordinary circumstances.…

WHISPERINGLY adv.

In a whisper, or low voice; in a whispering manner; with whispers. Tennyson.

WHISPEROUSLY adv.

Whisperingly. [R.]

WHIST a. 5 definitions

Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet. "So whist and dead a silence." Sir J. Harrington. The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kissed. Milton.

WHISTLE v. 9 definitions

uth or beak, as birds. The weary plowman leaves the task of day, And, trudging homeward, whistles on the way. Gay.

A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.

WHISTLER n. 7 definitions

One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.