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whale oil. train oil.
wharf, n. pier, quay, dock; jetty.
whatnot, a. etagere, cabinet.
wheat, n. a.s.sociated Word: mattamore. See grain.
wheedle, v. cajole, blandish, inveigle.
wheedling, n. cajolery, blandishment, inveiglement.
wheel, n. cycle; truckle, caster, roulette, rowel; gear, cogwheel, miter wheel; pulley, sheave (wheel of a pulley). a.s.sociated words: spoke, felly, hub, strake, tire, straddle, cog, sprocket, linchpin, arbor, axle, axletree, sprag, traction, trochilics, trochilic, ratchet, f.l.a.n.g.e, skid, rotiform.
whetstone, n. oilstone. a.s.sociated Word: coticular.
whey cure. serumtherapy, serotherapy.
whim, n. vagary, caprice, fancy, crotchet, freak, humor, maggot, notion, quirk.
whimsey, n. whim.
whimsical, a. capricious, vagarious, notional, crotchety, fantastic.
whine, n. whimper, puling, complaint.--v. whimper, pule, complain.
whiningly, a. plaintively, querulously.
whinny, n. and v. neigh.
whip, v. lash, beat, thrash, flog, drub, punish, chastise, trounce, flagellate, castigate, scourge, switch, spank, maul, fustigate; (Slang) conquer, defeat; jerk, s.n.a.t.c.h, whisk.
whip, n. horsewhip, crop, scourge, lash, switch, rattan, thong, knout, cat-o-nine-tails, quirt (rawhide); koorbash (Africa).
whipping, n. chastis.e.m.e.nt, castigation, punishment, scourging, trouncing, flagellation, beating, las.h.i.+ng, fustigation, flogging, mauling; defeat.
whippletree, n. whiffletree, swingletree, singletree.
whirl, v. spin, revolve, twirl, rotate, gyrate, wheel, pirouette.
whirl, n. circ.u.mvolution, rotation, gyration, swirl.
whirling, a. spinning, rotating, vertiginous, gyratory.
whirling, n. spinning, rotation, gyration, turbination, pirouette.
whirlpool, n. maelstrom, vortex, eddy; Charybdis.
whirlwind, n. cyclone, typhoon.
whiskers, n. pl. beard; (of a cat) vibrissa.
whiskey, n. _spiritus frumenti_. a.s.sociated words: faints, distill, distiller, distillery, poteen, moons.h.i.+ne, moons.h.i.+ner.
whisper, n. susurrus, susurration, whispering, sibilation; innuendo, suggestion, intimation.
whistling, n. rhonchus, rale (Med.).
whit, n. particle, atom, iota, jot, t.i.ttle, bit, mite, mote, ace, scintilla, sc.r.a.p.
white, a. blanched, bleached, etiolate, pale; h.o.a.ry.
white heat. incandescence.
white hot. incandescent.
white lead. ceruse, carbonate of lead.
white livered, a. cowardly, pusillanimous, dastardly.
whiten, v. bleach, blanch, pale, etiolate, decolorize.
whitening, n. bleaching, blanching, etiolation.
white race. Caucasian race.
whites, n. leucorrhea, fluor albus.
Whitsunday, n. Pentecost, Whitsuntide.
whiz, v. hum, buzz, whirr.
whole, a. all, total, entire; intact, complete, inviolate, integral, unbroken, unscathed, unabridged.
whole, n. sum, total, totality, all, aggregate, gross, integral.
Antonyms: part, portion, fraction, disintegration.
wholeness, n. entirety, completeness, integrity. a.s.sociated Words: integral, integrate, integration, integrant.
wholesome, a. healthy, salubrious, salutary, nutritious, beneficial.
Antonyms: See unhealthy.
whoop, n. halloo, hoot, shout, yell.
whooping-cough, n. chin cough, pertussis.
wh.o.r.e, n. harlot, prost.i.tute, strumpet, courtesan, wench, Cyprian, bawd, drab, punk, woman of ill fame, demirep.
wh.o.r.edom, n. prost.i.tution, fornication, lewdness, harlotry, bawdry.
