Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WHIM'PER-ING, ppr.

Crying with a low broken voice.

WHIM'PLED, v.

A word used by Shakspeare, is perhaps a mistake for whimpered. There is no such word in the English.

WHIM'SEY, n. [s as z. from whim.]

A whim; a freak; a capricious notion; as, the whimseys of poets. Men's follies, whimsies, and inconstancy. – Swift.

WHIM'SI-CAL, a.

Full of whims; freakish; having odd fancies; capricious. My neighbors call me whimsical. – Addison.

WHIM'SI-CAL-LY, adv. [supra.]

In a whimsical manner; freakishly.

WHIM'SI-CAL-NESS, or WHIM'SI-CAL-I-TY, n. [supra.]

Freakishness; whimsical disposition; odd temper.

WHIN, n. [In W. çwyn is a weed; L. Genista spinosa.]

Gorse; furze; a plant of the genus Ulex. – Tusser. Lee.

WHIN'-AX, n. [whin and ax.]

An instrument used for extirpating whin from land. – Cyc.

WHIN'BREL, or WHIM'BREL, n.

A bird resembling the curlew. – Dict. Nat. Hist.

WHIN'-CHAT, n.

A bird, a species of warbler, the Motacilla rubetra, Linn. – Ed. Encyc.

WHINE, n.

A plaintive tone; the nasal puerile tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint. – Rowe.

WHINE, v.t. [Sax. wanian and cwanian; Goth. hwainon; Dan. hviner, to whine, and to whinny, as a horse; Sw. hvina, to squeal or squeak; W. açwyn, to complain; L. hinnio, and qu. gannio.]

To express murmurs by a plaintive cry; to moan with a puerile noise; to murmur meanly. They came … with a whining accent craving liberty. – Sidney. Then, if we whine, look pale … – Shak.

WHIN'ER, n.

One who whines.

WHIN'ING, ppr.

Expressing murmurs by a mean plaintive tone or cant.

WHIN'ING-LY, adv.

In a whining manner.

WHIN'NY, v.i. [L. hinnio; from the root of whine.]

To utter the sound of a horse; to neigh.

WHIN'OC, n. [G. wenig, small.]

The small pig of a litter. – N. England.

WHIN'-STONE, n. [whin and stone; Scot. quhyn-stane.]

Whin-stone or whin is a provincial name given to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to any kind of dark colored and hard unstratified rock which resists the point of the pick. Veins of dark basalt or green-stone, are frequently called whin-dykes. – Cyc.

WHIN'-YARD, n.

A sword; in contempt. – Hudibras.

WHIP, n. [Sax. hweop.]

1. An instrument for driving horses or other teams, or for correction, consisting of a lash tied to a handle or rod.
2. In ships, a small tackle, used to hoist light bodies. – Mar. Dict. Whip and spur, with the utmost haste.

WHIP, v.i.

To move nimbly; to start suddenly and run; or to turn and run; as, the boy whipped away in an instant; he whipped round the corner; he whipped into the house, and was out of sight in a moment.

WHIP, v.t. [Sax. hweopan, to whip, and to weep, that is, to whoop or hoop; D. wippen, to shake, to move or wag, to give the strapado; zweepen, to whip; Dan. vipper, to swing; W. çwipiaw, to move briskly, to whip; çwip, a quick flirt or turn. The sense is well expressed by the Welsh, and we say, a man whips round a corner, when running he suddenly turns. It seems to be allied to wipe and sweep, and L. vapulo, and implies a sweeping throw or thrust.]

1. To strike with a lash or sweeping cord; as, to whip a horse.
2. To sew slightly. – Gay.
3. To drive with lashes; as, to whip a top.
4. To punish with the whip; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one thirty-nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy. Who, for false quantities, was whipp'd at school. – Dryden.
5. To lash with sarcasm. They would whip me with their fine wits. – Shak.
6. To strike; to thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat. – Cyc. [Not in use in the United States.] To whip about or round, to wrap; to inwrap; as, to whip a line round a rod. – Moxon. To whip out, to draw nimbly; to snatch; as, to whip out a sword or rapier from its sheath. To whip from, to take away suddenly. To whip into, to thrust in with a quick motion. He whipped his hand into his pocket. To whip up, to seize or take up with a quick motion. She whipped up the child, and ran off. Among seamen, to hoist with a whip or small tackle.

WHIP'-CORD, n. [whip and cord.]

Cord of which lashes are made. – Dryden.

WHIP'-GRAFT, v.t. [whip and graft.]

To graft by cutting the cion and stock in a sloping direction, so as to fit each other, and by inserting a tongue on the cion into a slit in the stock.

WHIP'-GRAFT-ING, n.

The act or practice of grafting by cutting the cion and stock with a slope, to fit each other, &c. – Encyc.