Whist :: Whist (interj.) Be silent; be still; hush; silence.

Whist :: 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 :: Whist (v. t.) To hush or silence.

Whist :: Whist (v. i.) To be or become silent or still; to be hushed or mute.

Whist :: Whist (a.) Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet.

Whistle :: 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 :: 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 :: Whistle (v. i.) To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air..

Whistle :: Whistle (v. t.) To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air..

Whistle :: Whistle (v. t.) To send, signal, or call by a whistle..

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 :: 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 :: 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 :: Whistle (v. i.) The mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs of whistling.

Whistled :: Whistled (imp. & p. p.) of Whistl.

Whistlefish :: Whistlefish (n.) A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe..

Whistler :: Whistler (n.) One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound..

Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The ring ousel.

Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The widgeon.

Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The golden-eye.

Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The golden plover and the gray plover.

Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The hoary, or northern, marmot (Arctomys pruinosus)..

Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The whistlefish.

Whistlewing :: Whistlewing (n.) The American golden-eye.

Whistlewood :: Whistlewood (n.) The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple..

Whistling :: Whistling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whistl.

Whistling :: Whistling () a. & n. from Whistle, v..

Whistlingly :: Whistlingly (adv.) In a whistling manner; shrilly.

Whistly :: Whistly (adv.) In a whist manner; silently.

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