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To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness. The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail, Unwillingly to school. Shak. Like guilty thing, Icreep. Tennyson.

to shrink or wrinkle; to distort. [Obs.] Till like a boy you see him cringe his face, And whine aloud for mercy. Shak.

ief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal. With screwed face and doleful whine. South. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades. Milton.

lowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.

The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck.

To neigh; to whinny. [Obs.]

nful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality. Hawthorne. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness, n.

t; to deceive; to play the beggar. And then when mumping with a sore leg, ... canting and whining. Burke.

er part. -- Needle furze (Bot.), a prickly leguminous plant of Western Europe; the petty whin (Genista Anglica). -- Needle gun, a firearm loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying its own fulminate, which is exploded by driving a slender needle, or pin, into it. -- Needle loom (Weaving), a loom in which the wef…

To utter the cry of the horse; to whinny.

eed in acting. [R.] He has made me heir to treasures Would make me outact a real window's whining. Otway.

To whimper; to whine, as a complaining child. It becometh not such a gallant to whine and pule. Barrow.

One who pules; one who whines or complains; a weak person.

A cry, as of a chicken,; a whining or whimpering. Leave this faint puling and lament as I do. Shak.

With whining or complaint.

Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice.

pers, books, or small articles of wearing apparel; a hand bag. [Spelled also sachel.] The whining schoolboy with his satchel. Shak.

To cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or whiningly. Put stop to thy sniveling ditty. Sir W. Scott.

Running at the nose; sniveling pitiful; whining.

To snivel; to cry or whine. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.