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Not thinking; not heedful; thoughtless; inconsiderate; as, unthinking youth.

Not weighing or pondering; inconsiderate. Shak.

A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.

Same as Indican.

a. & n. from Vanish, v. Vanishing fraction (Math.), a fraction which reduces to the form Math. Dict. -- Vanishing line (Persp.), the intersection of the parallel of any original plane and picture; one of the lines converging to the vanishing point. -- Vanishing point (Persp.), the point to which all parallel lines in…

The act of laying on varnish; also, materials for varnish.

An automatic machine gun in which the mechanism is worked by the recoil, assisted by the pressure of gases from the muzzle, which expand in a gas chamber against a disk attached to the end of the barrel, thus moving the latter to the rear with increased recoil, and against the front wall of the gas chamber, checking th…

The quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak.

The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash. Washing bear (Zoöl.), the raccoon. -- Washing bottle (Chem.), a bottle fitted with glass tubes passing through the cork, so that on blowing into one of the tubes a stream of water issuing from the other may be directed upon anything to be washed or rinsed, as a precipitate…

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy. Lowell.

The American lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat resemble chinquapins. Cf. Yoncopin.

The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence.

a. & n. from Weigh, v. Weighing cage, a cage in which small living animals may be conveniently weighed. -- Weighing house. See Weigh-house. -- Weighing machine, any large machine or apparatus for weighing; especially, platform scales arranged for weighing heavy bodies, as loaded wagons.

Gorse; furze. See Furze. Through the whins, and by the cairn. Burns.

The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze. Dr. Prior.

A small warbler (Pratincola rubetra) common in Europe; -- called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet.

ntive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely. "Whining plovers." Spenser. The hounds were . . . staying their coming, but with a whining accent, craving liberty. Sir P. Sidney. Dost thou come here to whine Shak.

One who, or that which, whines.

To whine. [Scot.] Burns.

a weapon. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] The chief acknowledged that he had corrected her with his whinger. Sir W. Scott.