2598: it ftrikes fire with fteel, and effervefces with acids. Mr Kirwan found that 100 parts of it contained 25 of mild calcareous earth, and no i ron. Cronstedt is of opinion that there are probably two forts of ftones known by this name, as that defcribed by Wallerius neither gives fire with fteel nor effervefces with acids. It is ufed as a subetftone: and those of the finest grain are the best hones for the most delicate cutting tools, razors, lancets, &c. See MINERALOGY, Part. II. Ch. IV. Ord. III. Sect. III. Gen. VI. Sp. I. TURKOIS, and TURQUOISE. WHETTAL, a town of Shropshire. * WHETTER. n. f. [from whet:] One that whets or tharpens.-Love and enmity are notable whetters and quickeners of the fpirit of life in all animals. More. WHETTLE, a town of Shropshire. * WHEY. n. /. [thwæg, Saxon; wey, Dutch.] 1. The thin, or ferous part of milk,. from which the oleofe or grumous part is feparated.-I'll make you feed on curds and whey. Shak.-Milk is nothing but blood turned white, by being diluted with a greater quantity of ferum or whey in the glandules of the breaft. Harvey. 2. It is ufed of any thing white and thin.-What foldiers whey: face. Shak. * WHEYEY. adj. [from whey.] Partaking WHEYISH of whey; retembling whey. Thofe medicines, fend down the wheyey part of the blood to the reins. Bacon.-Such aubegifh liquors. Philips. WHEYLE, a town of Herefordshire. * WHICH. pron. (thavile, Saxon; welk, Dutch.] 1. The pronoun relative; relating to things.-The apostles term it the handful or earnest of that which is to come. Hooker.—In destructions by deluge, the remnant which hap to be referved are ignorant. Bacon.--Qualities which feldom difplay themselves to the firft view. South She fnatches from their mouths th' untasted meat, Which, if they touch, her hiffing snakes fhe rears. Dryd. -Confider the parts of the furface of this globe which is barren, as fand and rocks. Locke. 2. It had formerly the before it.-That worthy name, by the which ye are called? James, ii. 7. 3. It formerly was used for who, and related likewife to perfons: as in the first words of the Lord's prayer. The Almighty, which giveth wifdom to whomfoever it pleaseth him. Hooker.— Shak.. --Every one hears that, Which can diftinguith found. -Had I been there, which am a filly woman Shak. 4. The genitive of which, as well as of who, is auhofe; but whofe, as derived from which, is fcarcely used but in poetry.-Of that forbidden tree, whofe mortal tafte. Milton. 5. It is fometimes a demonftrative: as, take which you will. What is the night? -Almoft at odds with morning, which is which. Shak. 6. It is fometimes an interrogative: as, which is the man. Which of you convinceth me of fin. John. For which of thefe works do ye ftone me. Jou. The puzzled strangers which is which enqure. Ticket. WHICHBURY, a town of Wilshire, (1) WHICHCOT, Benjamin, D. D. born in Shropshire, in 1609, and educated at King's Col lege, Cambridge, of which he became fellow and at length Provoft; when he raifed its funds to the moft flourishing ftate, by his economy. But in fpite of his merits, having written Complimentary verles on Oliver Cromwel, he was by order of Charles II. difplaced from his provoftship, in 1661. But in 1662, he was chofen minifter of St Anne's, Blackfriars. In 1668, he was made by the king vicar of St Laurence Jury, and preached for years before the court of Aldermen at Guild-hall. He died in 1668, and his funeral fermon was preached by Abp. Tiilotfon. The rft. vol. of his Sele. Sermons was published by the Earl of Shaftesbury in 1698; the 3 next by Dr Jeffery, and the 5th by Dr S. Clarke. (2.) WHICHCOT, in geography, a town of Salop. WHICHNOR, a town of Staffordshire. * WHICHSOEVER. pron. [which and fove.] Whether one or the other.-Whichfoever of the he takes, and how often soever he doubles it, he finds that he is not one jot nearer the end of fuch addition than at first fetting out. Locke. WHICHWOOD, a Forest of Oxfordshire. WHICKELSWITH, a town of Lancashire. (1.) WHHOzH, a kingdom of Africa, on the coaft of Guinea, and to the weft of the Gold Coaft; extending about 10 miles along the fea. It is a populous country. The fields are always green, and they cultivate beans, potatoes, and fruits. They fow again the very next day after they have reaped. The inhabitants are greatly civilized, and very induftrious. The women brew the beer, drefs the victuals, and fell all forts of commodities at the market. Those who are rich employ their wives and flaves in tilling the land, and they carry on a confiderable trade with the product, as well as in flaves: for fome of them are able to deliver 1000 of the latter every month. The chief men have generally 40 or 50 wives, the principal captains 300 or 400, and the king 4000 or soco. They are extremely jealous, and, on the leaft fufpicion, will fell them to the Europe ans for flaves. If any one happen to touch one of the king's wives accidentary, he is doomed to perpetual flavery. They have no distinction of hours, days, weeks, months, or years. The rite of circumcifion is ufed, but they know not why. They are fuch great gamesters, that they will take all they have at play, not excepting their wives and children. They have a vast number of idols; and they deify the most contemptible animal that they fee firft in a morning, and even ftocks and ftones. Their principal regard is for fnakes, very high trees, and the fea. They have oxen, cows, goats, fheep, hogs, turkeys, ducks, and hens. There are many elephants, buffaloes, tigers, feve ral kinds of deer, and a fort of hares. The fruits are citrons, lemons, oranges, bananas, tamarinds, &c. and they have vaft numbers of palm-trees, from which they obtain wine. Whidah was conquered by the king of Dahomy. Their trade confifts of flaves, elephants teeth, wax, and honey. Bows, arrows, and clubs, are their principal wea pons. Xabier is the capital. The English factory is 200 miles E. of Cape Coast Castle, within land. (2.) WHIDAH, (2.) WHIG (§ 1, def. 1.) is not whey, but the lightly acidulated ferum of butter-milk; and this being the moft infignificant part of the milk, the name was applied in contempt by the TORIES, or the fupporters of unlimited abfolute power and indefeafble hereditary right in the monarch, to all their political opponents who stood up for the rights of the people, in oppofition to defpotism. Hence, (2.) WHIDAH, SNAKES or. The fakes of Whidah are remarkably beautiful: the fkin imooth and elegantly adorned with a variety of rich colours upon a ground of light grey which at once diftinguith them from all other fnakes and ferpents. The head is large and round; the eyes bright and piercing; the tongue sharp and pointed like a dart. The inake's pace is flow except when it feines its prey, when it is exceeding rapid. Although, to all other animals they are exceedingly inoffentive, yet they have a mortal antipathy at all venomous ferpents, which they deftroy. With the human fpecies they are amazingly tame, permitting themfelves to be handled with great freedom. All other animals who hurt or injure them are immediately killed by the inhabitants. WHIDAW BIRD. See EMBERIZA. WHIDBECK, a town of Cumberland, S. of Ravenglafo. WHIDDY, an ifland on the S. coaft of Ireland, in Bantry Bay; 7 miles in circumference. * WHIFF. n. f. [chwyth, Welth. A blast, a puff of wind. The whif and wind of his fell word. Shak.-If fome unfav'ry whiff betray the crime. Dryd. And feafons his abs with impertinent jokes. Prior. Upon the first whiff the tradesmen came jumping in. Arbuthnot. To WHIFFLE. v. n. (from whiff. To move inconftantly, as if driven by a puff of wind.--A aubifling fop. L'Efr.-The fport of ev'ry whiffing blaft that blows? Rome.--A perfon of a gubiffing and unfteady turn of mind."Watts. WHIFFLER. n. f. [from while. 1. An ancient officer of state.-A mighty whiffler 'fore the the king. Shak. 2. One of no confequence; one moved with a whiff or puff-Our fine young ladies retain in their service a great number of fupernumerary and infignificant fellows, which they ufe like whifflers, and commonly call fhoeinghorns. Spect.-Every whiffler in a laced coat, who frequents the chocolate-houfe, fhall talk of the conftitution. Savift. (3.) WHIGS, (1, def. 2.) the name of a respectable party of the friends of civil and religious liberty in Great Britain, who, after long ftruggling against the TORIES and other fupporters of the arbitrary power of the houfe of STEWART, at laft prevailed, and established our prefent happy conftitution in church and state, by the revolution of 1688, and the fettlement of the fucceffion in the houte of Hanover. (See ENGLAND, $ 43-76.) The Whigs now comprehend the great majority, if not the whole mafs of the people of the British empire. WHIGGERY, n. f. [from whig.] the political fyftem of the Whigs, or the conftitutional freedom of the people of Great Britain, established by the revolution of 1688, under a limited мoNARCH, and two houses of PARLIAMENT, LORDS and COMMONS. See these articles. * WHIGGISH. adj. [from whig.] Relating to the whigs.-To defend the whiggish caufe. Swift. * WHIGGISM. n. f. [from whig.] The notions of a whig.-Pamphlets, wholly made up of whiggifm and atheifin. Swift. WHIKENBY, a town of England, in Lincolnfhire, S. of Market Railin. WHIKHAM, a fmall town of England, in Durham; SW. of Newcastle upon Tyne. WHILDEN, a town of England, in Suffex; NE. of Brighthelmstone. fairly, if they think it worth their while. Digby. - Parfing a while, thus to herself the mus'd. Milt. -Thine own confcience did condemn thee, all the while thou waft doing of them. Tillotson.I have all this while been endeavouring to convince. Tillotfon.-Few, without the hope of ano ther life, would think it worth their while to live above the allurements of fenfe. Atterbury.-What fate has difpofed of the papers, 'tis not worth while to tell. Locke. (1.) * WHILE. n. f. [weil, Germ. thwile, Sax.] Time; fpace of time.-Remain fome while in this company. Sidney.-All this while in a most faft fleep. Shak.-One while we thought him inno(1.) * WHIG. n. f. [thwag, Saxon.] 1. Whey. cent. B. Jonf.-Supplide all fupper while. Chapm. 2. The name of a faction.-The fouth-west coun-I hope all ingenuous perfons will advertise me ties of Scotiand have seldom corn enough to ferve them round the year; and the northern parts producing more than they need, thofe in the weft come in the Summer to buy at Leith the ftores that come from the north; and from a word, whiggam, ufed in driving their horfes, all that drove were called the whiggamors, and fhorter the whiggs. Now in that year before the news came down of duke Hamilton's defeat, the minifters animated their people to rife and march to Edinburgh; and they came up marching on the head of their parithes with an unheard of fury, praying and preaching all the way as they came. The marquis of Argyle and his party came and headed them, they being about fix thoufand. This was called the whiggamor's inroad; and ever after that, all that oppofed the court came in contempt to be called whigs: and from Scotland the word was brought into England, where it is now one of our unhappy terms of difunion. Burnet. Whoever has a true value for church and state, fhould avoid the extremes of whig for the fake of the former, and the extremes of tory on the account of the latter. Swift. (2.) * WHILE. WHILES. WHILST. adv. [thwile, Saxon. Whiles is now out of ufe.] 1. During the time that.-Whiles I was protector. Shak.-- What we have, we prize not to the worth, Repeated, cubile the fedentary earth Shak. Milton. 2. As long as-Ufe your memory, you will fenfibly experience a gradual improvement, while you take care not to overload it. Watts. 3. At the fame time that.-Whiles by the experiment of this miniftration they glorify God. 2 Cor.-Can he imagine that God fends forth an irresistible ftrength againft fome fins, whilst in others he perBb 2 * WHIN. n. f. [chawyn, Welth; genifta fpinofa, Lat.] Furze; gorfe-With abins or with furzes thy hovel renew. Tuffer.-Plants that have prickles in their leaf are holly, juniper, abin-buih, and thistle. Bacon. mits men a power of repelling his grace? Decay of P.-While all his gracious afpect praife. Addif. While Wits and Templars ev'ry fentence raife, And wonder with a foolish face of praife. Pope. *To WHILE. v. n. [from the noun.] To loiter. -The whiling time, the gathering together, and waiting a little before dinner, is the most aukwardly paffed away of any. Spec. WHILERE. adv. [while and ere, or before.] A little while ago; ere while. Not in ufe.-That curfed wight, from whom I 'cap'd awhilere. Spenf. Will you troul the catch You taught me but while-ere? Thofe armies that while-ere Shak. Drayton. Affrighted all the world. * WHILES. See WHILE, $2. * WHILOM. adv. [thwilom, Saxon, that is, once on a time. Formerly; once; of old. Not in ufe.-There chilom wont the Templar knights abide. Spenfer In northern clime a val'rous knight Did whilom kill his bear in fight. Hudibras. Ev'n fo Apollo, with vnweeting hand, Whilom did flay his dearly loved mate. Milton. * WHILST, See WHILE, § 2. WHILTON, a town of England, in Northamptonshire, 3 miles from Daventry. WHIM. n.. [This word is derived by Skinner from a thing turning round; nor can I find any etymology more probable.] A freak, an odd fancy; a caprice, an irregular motion of defire.All the fuperfluous whims relate. Swift.-He learnt his whims, and high-flown notions too. Harte. WHIMBREL. See SCOLOPAX, N° 6. * To WHIMPER. v. n. [wimmeren, German.] To cry without any loud noife.--The father fhould always flence their whimpering. Locke. A laughing, toying, wheedling, whimp'ring the. Rowe. She gently whimpers like a lowing cow. Swift. WHIMPLE, a town of Devonsh. near St Marys. * WHIMPLED. adj. I fuppofe from himper This word feems to mean distorted with crying. This abimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy. Shak. * WHIMSEX. n. f. [Only another form of the word whim. A freak, a caprice; an odd fancy; a whim.-At this rate a pretended freak or whim fey may be palliated. L'Efr.-All the fancies and quhimies of poets and painters. Ray.—As light or folid suhimfeys move. Prior. And they have my quhimies, but thou haft my heart. Prior.-Oranges in qubimfey-boards went round. King.-I could not impute it to melancholy, or a splenetick phimfey. Blackmore.-Men's folly, whimfies, and inconftancy. Swift. WHIMSICAL. adi. [from whimsey.] Freak-th; capricious; oddly fanciful.-In another cirpumftance I am particular, or, as my neighbours fajl me, whimsical. Addiygn. (2.) WHIN, in botany. See RURAL ECONOMY, Part 1. Sect. V. and ULEX. (3.) WHIN, PETTY, a fpecies of ONONIS. WHINBOROUGH, a town of England, in Norfolk; S. of E. Dereham. WINCHAT. See MOTACILLA, N° 13. *WHINE. n. f. [from the verb.) Plaintive noife; mean or affected complaint. - Demure looks and affected whines. South.-Thy hateful whine of woe. Rowe. *To WHINE. v. n. [wanian, Saxon; weenen, Dutch; cwyno, Weith. To lament in low mer murs; to make a plaintive noise; to moan mean. ly and effeminately.-A shining accent. Sidney.— He whin'd and roar'd away your victory. Shuk. Twice and once the hedge-pig whin’d. Shak.And qubine aloud for mercy. Shak.-They have a achining tone and accent in their speech. Davis. Then, if we whine, look pale. Suckling. He made a viler noife than swine In windy weather, when they subine. Hudibras. -They could shine and howl, as well as bite and devour. South.-A whining tale. DrydenLaughing at their awhining may perhaps be the proper method. Locke.-Life muft not be facrificed to a quarrel, nor awhined away in love. Cell. -They come whining with petitions to the court. Swift. WHINFELL, a town of Weftmoreland, in Kendal, near Grayrigg. WHINFIELD, a town of Weftmoreland, between Kendal and Orton. WHINNION, a lake of Scotland, in Kirkcud brightshire, abounding with excellent trouts; between the parishes of Girthon and Twyneholme, To WHINNY. v. n. [pinnio, Lat. from the found. To make a noife like a horfe or colt. WHINNYAN. See WHINNION. WHIN-STONE, 7. f. in Mineralogy. See COAL MINE, 8; and MINERALOGY, Part II. Chap. IV. Order III. Sect. III. Gen. VI. Sp. 1. * WHINYARD. n. f. [svinnan and are, to gain honour, Saxon, Skinner. I know not whether this word was ever ufed feriously, and therefore per haps it might be denominated in contempt from whin, a tooì to cut whins.] A fword: in contempt.-He fnatch'd his whinyard up. Hudibras. (1.) * WHIP. 2. f. [thweop, Saxon.] An inftrument of correction tough and pliant.-The one in hand an iron whip did ftrain." Spenf.-Put in ev'ry honeft hand a whip. Sbak.-Love deferves as well a dark-house and a whip as madmen do. Shak.--Her chain fhe rattles, and her whip the fakes. Dryden.--In his right hand he holds the chip. Addifon. * (2.) WHIP, in a fhip. (3.) WHIP and pur. Came whip and fpur, and Duncan. * See WHIP-STAFF. With the utmost hafte.dash thro' thin and thick, (1.) To WHIP. v. a. [thweopan, Saxon; wip. pen, Dutch.] 1. To ftrike with any thing tough and flexible.-And plies them with the lab, and whips 'em on. Addijon. 2. To few flightly--In bait half whipt muflin needles ufelefs lie. Gay. 3. To drive with lathes.- To whip this dwarfish war, thefe pigmy arms, From out the circle of his territories. Shak. --Let's whip these ftragglers o'er the feas again, Shak-Since I pluckt geefe, play'd truant, and ubipt top. Shak--Ordered every day to ship his top, fo long as to make him weary. Locke.--Whipt cream; unfortify'd with wine or fenfe! Harte. 4. To correct with lathes.--Hoping you'll find good caute to whip them all. Shak.--Who for fille quantities was whipt at fchool. Dryden.-Who whipt the winds, and made the fea his flave! Dryd.--This requires more than fetting children a trk, and chipping them without any more ado, Locke.--Oh chain me! whip me! Smith.--Heirs to titles and large states are not able to bear the pain and indignity of whipping. Swift. 5. Tolafh with farcafm.--They would ship me with their fine wits. Shak. 6. To inwrap--Its ftring is firmly whipt about with finall gut. Moxon. * (2.) TO WHIP. v. a. To take any thing nimbly: always with a particle afcertaining the fenfe; --as, out, on, up, asway. A ludicrous ufe.--He whipt his rapier out, and cries, a rat! Shak.--She in a hurry achips up her darling under her arm. L'Etr.-- I can easily chip up to your horns, and fo out of the well. L'Etr.--Brifk Sufan whips her inen from the rope. Swift.--It lies ready for you to whip it out in a moment. Swift. 13.) To WIP. V. N. To move nimbly. A ludicrous word.--Two friends travelling together, Let a bear upon the way: the one hips up a tre, and the other throws himfelf flat upon the Found. L'Etr. The fimple 'fquire made a fudden start to follow; but the juftice of the quorum wid between. Tatler. WHIPCORD. n. f. [whip and cord.] Cord of Wich lathes are made.—In Raphael's firft works are many finall foldings, which look like shiptords. Dryden. WHIPGRAFTING. 7. f. [In gardening.] A kind of grafting. * WHIPHAND. n.f. [ship and hand.] Advantage over. The archangel, has the whiphand of her. Dryden. * WHIPLASH. n. /. The lafh or fmall end of a whip.-Have whiplash wel knotted and cartrope inough. Ter. WHIPPER. 1. f. [from whip.] One who punishes with whipping.--The reafon why lovers are not fo punished is, that the whippers are in love too. Shak. WHIPPING OF Boys, in Pagan worship, a hoft horrible piece of barbarity, committed under pretence of religion, fometimes to the priva tion of life, among the ancient Spartans. See DIAMASTIGOSIS. WHIPPINGHAM, a town in the ifle of Wight. WHIPPINGPOST. n.f. [whip and poft.] A pillar to which criminals are bound when they are lained --Could not the whippingpoft prevail. Hud. • WHIPSAW. n. f. [whip and jaw] The ship ar is ufed by joiners to faw fuch great pie Cs of ituff that the handfaw will not eafily reach through. Moxon. WHIPSNADE, a town of De vonflire. WHIPSTAFF. n. f. [On fhipboard.] A piece of wood faftened to the helm, which the fteerfman holds in his hand to move the helm and turn the thip. Bailey. * WHIPSTER. n. f. [from whip.] A nimble fellow.-But ev'ry puny abipfter gets my fword. Spak.-Give that whipfler but his errand. Prior. * WHIPT, for whipped. In Bridewel a number be stript, Leffe worthie than theefe to be whipt. Tuffer. * WHIRL. n. J. [from the verb.j 1. Gyration; quick rotation; circular motion; rapid circumvolution. But ev'n your follies and debauches change With fuch a whirl, the poets of your age Are tir'd, and cannot fcore them on the ftage. Dryden. -Their various turnings and their whirls declare. Creech.-Nor whirl of time, nor flight of years can wafte. Creech-I have been watching what thoughts came up in the whirl of fancy. Pope. How the car rattles, how its kindling wheels Smoke in the whirl. Smith. 2. Any thing moved with rapid rotation.-For though in dreadful sobirls we hung. Addif. (1.) To WHIRL. v. a. thayrfan, Saxon; airbelen, Dutch. To turn round rapidly.-My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel. Shak. -He whirls his fword around without delay. Dryden.-With his full force he whirl'd it firit around. Dryd.—Whirls the black waves and rattling ftones around. Addijon.—With impetuous motion whirl'd apace. Granv.-The fun, with all the planets and the fixed ftars, they think are awhirled round this little globe. Watts. (2.) To WHIRL. v. n. 1. To run round rapidly.-He, rapt with whirling wheels, inflames the fkyen. Spenfer.-Four fixed, and the fifth did awhirl about. Shak.-The wooden engine flies and whirls about. Dryden.— * The flood away, the ftruggling fquadron fweeps, And men and arms, and horfes whirling bears. Smith. 2. To move haftily.—She whirl'd away, to fhun his hateful fight. Dryden. * WHIRLBAT. n. f. [whirl and bat.] Any thing moved rapidly round to give a blow. It is frequently ufed by the poets for the ancient ceftus.-At whirlbat he had flain many. L'Eftr.The whirlbat's falling blow they nimbly thun. Creech.-The guardian angels of kingdoms he rejected, as Dares did the whirlbats of Eryx. Dryd, -The whirlbat and the rapid race. Dryd. (1.) * WHIRLBONE. n.f. The patella; the cap of the knee. mfaworth. (2.) WHIRLBONE. See ANATOMY, Index; at KNEE-BONE. * WHIRLIGIG. n. f. [whirl and gig.] A toy which children fpin round.-He found that marbles taught him percuffion, and whirligigs the axis in peritrochio. Arbuthnot. That fince they gave things their beginning, And fet this whirligig a-fpinning. WHIRLPIT. Prior. n. J. thyrfpole, Sax.] (1.) WHIRLPOOL. A place where the wa ter moves circularly, and draws whatever comes within the circle towards its center; a vortex.Poor Tom! whom the foul fiend hath led thre ford ford and whirlpool. Shak.-By raging whi Overthrown. Sandys. This mermaid's melody, its upwards of 50 lb. on every fquare foot of furface, which, it is to be doubted, whether any of Our common houfes could refift. Some kinds of whirlwinds move with a flow motion, and are injurious only by their vortex; while others feem to do mifchief as well by their progreffive as their whirling motion. Of this kind are those called TYPHONS; which, by their frequently following the courfe of rivers, feem thus to discover an e lectrical origin.. Into an unfeen whirlpool draws you faft. Dryd. Of circling whirlpools, and of fpheres of fmoke. Prior.-There might arife fome vertiginous motions or whirlpools in the matter of the chaos. Bentley. (2.) A WHIRLPOOL is an eddy, vortex, or gulf, where the water is continually turning round, Thofe in rivers are very common, from various accidents, and are ufually very trivial, and of litthe confequence. In the fea they are more rare, but more dangerous. Sibbald has related the effetts of a very remarkable marine whirlpool among the Orcades, which would prove very dangerous to ftrangers, though it is of no confequence to the people who are ufed to it. This is not fixed to any particular place, but appears in various parts of the limits of the fea among these inlands. Wherever it appears, it is very furious; and boats, &c. would inevitably be drawn in and perith with it; but the people who navigate them are prepared for it, and always carry an empty vellel, a log of wood, or large bundle of ftraw, or fome fuch thing, in the boat with them; as foon as they perceive the whirlpool, they tofs this within its vortex, keeping themfelves out: this fubftance, whatever it be, is immediately received into the centre, and carried under avater; and as foon as this is done, the furface of the place where the whirlpool was becomes fmooth, and they row over it with fafety: and in about an hour they fee the vortex begin again in fome other place, ufually at about a mile's distance from the first See MAFLSTROM. (1.) * WHIRLWIND. n. . [werbelwind, German. A ftormy wind moving circularly. In the very torrent and whirlwind of your paftion. Shak.—With whirlwinds from beneath the tofs'd the fhip. Dryden. * WHIRRING. adj. A word formed in imi. tation of the found exprefled by it-From the brake the whirring pheafant fprings. Pope. WHISBY, a town of England, SW. of Lincoln. * WHISK. n. f. vifchen, to wipe, German] . A fmail befom, or bruth.-The white of a egg, being agitated with a whisk or spoon, lofs its tranfparency. Boyle.-If you break any china with the top of the whisk on the mantle-tree, ga ther up the fragments. Swift. 2. A part of a wo man's drefs.-Wearing a lawn whisk instead of a point de Venice. Child. * To WHISK. V. a. (swischen, to wipe, German) 1 To fweep with a fmall befom. 2. To more nimbly, as when one fweeps.-That as the subj it t'wards the fum. Hudibras. * WHISKER. n. f. [from whisk.] The haz growing on the cheek unfhaven; the muftachio -Did twift together with its whiskers. Hudib.--With hoary whiskers and a forky beard. F -A painter added a pair of whiskers to the fac Addifen. WHISKY, n. f. a term fignifying water, and applied in Scotland and in Ireland to a diftilled liquor drawn from barley, which is perhaps pr ferable to any English mait brandy: it is fron but not pungent, and free from any empyreumatic tatte or fmell. See SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. (1.) To WHISPER. v. a. 1. To addrefs in a low voice.-They awhisper one another in the ear. Shak.-Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. Shak.-He first whispers the man the ear. Bac.-The fteward whispered the young Templar. Tatler. 2. To utter in a low voice.You have heard of the news abroad, I mean the suhiper'd ones. Shak. * WHISPER. n. f. [from the verb.] A lov foft voice, cautious and timorous fpeech.-The inward voice or shifter cannot give a tone. Be (2.) A WHIRLWIND, in meteorology, is a wind-Strictly obferve the firft hints and avbifpers & which moves in a fpiral direction, as well as hori- good and evil that pafs in the heart. South-S zontally, which is exceedingly rapid and impetu subifpers through th' aflembly went. Dryden ous, but only of fhort duration. Dr Franklin's Divulg'd the fecret whispers of his foul. Dryd opinion of the origin of whirlwinds has been al- With fuch like falfe whispers, the ears of pr ready given in the artick WATER-SPOUT. If his ces have been poifoned. Davenant. theory be true, it will follow, that no hurricane ever can be fo violent as to remove an obftacle of the fize of only one cubic inch, provided that was fupported by a power equivalent to 15 lb.; for this is the utmost force of the atmosphere when ruthing into a perfect vacuum, which never could take place in the centre of a whirlwind or waterfpout. Indeed, notwithstanding the dreadful effects fometimes obferved from hurricanes and whirlwinds, we fhall eafily perceive, that the ut most of their power always falls very far fhort of this. The diminution of the fpecific gravity of the air by only 4th in the middle of the column, would produce fuch an afflux of air from all quarters, that an obftacle prefenting a furface of one foot fquare, would require a force of 504 lb. to prevent it from being carried away; which the ftrongest walls that can be built by human art could scarce refift. Nay, even the tenth part of this, or the diminution of the gravity of the atmophere by part, would produce a preflure of Sit and eat your bread, He came To whisper Wolfey, here makes vifitation. Shak (2.) TO WHISPER. v. n. [wi/peren, Dutch. To fpeak with a low voice, fo as not to be heard but by the ear close to the speaker; to speak with fufpicion or timorous caution.-All the court and city were full of whilperings and expectation of fome fudden change. Sidney.-All that hate me whisper together againft me. Pf. In fpeech of |