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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..

Pipe :: Pipe (v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle..

Pipe :: Pipe (n.) The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird..

Swollen :: Swobber (n.) Four privileged cards, formerly used in betting at the game of whist..

Book :: Book (n.) Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set..

Birdcall :: Birdcall (n.) An instrument of any kind, as a whistle, used in making the sound of a birdcall..

Elke :: Elke (n.) The European wild or whistling swan (Cygnus ferus).

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

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

Pue :: Pue (v. i.) To make a low whistling sound; to chirp, as birds..

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

Whisk :: Whisk (n.) A game at cards; whist.

Gossat :: Gossat (n.) A small British marine fish (Motella tricirrata); -- called also whistler and three-bearded rockling.

Sifflement :: Sifflement (n.) The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation.

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

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

Crossruff :: Crossruff (n.) The play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw..

Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it..

Trump :: Trump (n.) An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; -- called also ruff..

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

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