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- Whist - interj. - Be silent; be still; hush; silence.
- Whist - n. - A certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed.
- Whist - v. t. - To hush or silence.
- Whist - v. i. - To be or become silent or still; to be hushed or mute.
- Whist - a. - Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet.
- Whistle - v. i. - To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds.
- Whistle - v. i. - To make a shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument, somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp, shrill tone.
- Whistle - v. i. - To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air.
- Whistle - v. t. - To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air.
- Whistle - v. t. - To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
- Whistle - v. i. - A sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a similar sound; the sound used by a sportsman in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle.
- Whistle - v. i. - The shrill sound made by wind passing among trees or through crevices, or that made by bullet, or the like, passing rapidly through the air; the shrill noise (much used as a signal, etc.) made by steam or gas escaping through a small orifice, or impinging against the edge of a metallic bell or cup.
- Whistle - v. i. - An instrument in which gas or steam forced into a cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam).
- Whistle - v. i. - The mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs of whistling.
- Whistled - imp. & p. p. - of Whistle
- Whistlefish - n. - A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.
- Whistler - n. - One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.
- Whistler - n. - The ring ousel.
- Whistler - n. - The widgeon.
- Whistler - n. - The golden-eye.
- Whistler - n. - The golden plover and the gray plover.
- Whistler - n. - The hoary, or northern, marmot (Arctomys pruinosus).
- Whistler - n. - The whistlefish.
- Whistlewing - n. - The American golden-eye.
- Whistlewood - n. - The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple.
- Whistly - adv. - In a whist manner; silently.
- Crossruff - n. - The play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw.
- Game - v. i. - That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game.
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- H4953 מַשְׁרוֹקִי - 4953 מַשְׁרוֹקִי - מַשְׁרוֹקִי - - mashrôwqîy - mash-ro-kee' - (Aramaic) from a root corresponding to שָׁרַק; a (musical) pipe (from its whistling sound); flute. - Noun Feminine - arc
- H8319 שָׁרַק - 8319 שָׁרַק - שָׁרַק - - shâraq - shaw-rak' - a primitive root; properly, to be shrill, i.e. to whistle or hiss (as a call or in scorn); hiss. - Verb - heb
- H8292 שְׁרוּקָה - 8292 שְׁרוּקָה - שְׁרוּקָה - - shᵉrûwqâh - sher-oo-kaw' - or (by permutation) שְׁרִיקָה; feminine passive participle of שָׁרַק; a whistling (in scorn); by analogy, a piping; bleating, hissing. - Noun Feminine - heb