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A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; hence, a prison. [Slang] "Flogged or whipped in quod." T. Hughes.

A cowhide, or coarse riding whip, made of untanned (or raw) hide twisted.

Myliobatidæ, or Ætobatidæ. The common European species (Myliobatis aquila) is called also whip ray, and miller. -- Electric ray, or Cramp ray, a torpedo. -- Starry ray, a common European skate (Raia radiata). -- Sting ray, any one of numerous species of rays of the family Trygonidæ having one or more large, sharp, b…

Used for riding, or when riding; devoted to riding; as, a riding whip; a riding habit; a riding day. Riding clerk. (a) A clerk who traveled for a commercial house. [Obs. Eng.] (b) One of the "six clerks" formerly attached to the English Court of Chancery. -- Riding hood. (a) A hood formerly worn by women when riding.…

The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points. With sounding whip, and rowels dyed in blood. Cowper.

A painful scourge. My father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. 1 Kings xii. 11.

, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip. Up to coach then goes The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins. Chapman.

To beat or whip; to drub. [Old or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc.

A small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei).

ut one set of petals, as a wild rose. -- Single knot. See Illust. under Knot. -- Single whip (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block.

To lash; to ply the whip to. [R.] King.

A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.

To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip. MacMorian snapped his fingers repeatedly. Sir W. Scott.

One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip.

ly Dasyatidæ, syn. Trygonidæ, having one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines, on the whiplike tail, capable of inflicting severe wounds. Some species reach a large size, and some, esp., on the American Pacific coast, are very destructive to oysters.

A stroke or blow made with a whip, rod, scourge, or the like, such as usually leaves a mark. Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed. Deut. xxv. 3.

high. [Archaic] A soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit. E. P. Whipple.

ghting way. [R.] It is a characteristic weakness of the day to superficialize evil. E. P. Whipple.

To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish. I had swinged him soundly. Shak. And swinges his own vices in his son. C. Dryden.