whittret

[WHITRET.] whit-wall, 8. [WITWALL.] Ornith.: The same as WITWALL, 1 (q. v.). [YAFFIL, YAFFINGALE.] "The ringing of the whitwall's shrilly laughter." Hood: Haunted House . Whit-worth, s. [See compounds.] Whit worth-ball, s . [WHIT WORTH-GUN.] Whit worth-gun, s. A wrought afterward, steel Whit-sun-day, Whit-sun-day, whit-son invented by Mr. Whit worth. It had a hexagonal daie, s. [Lit.= White Sunday , from A. S. hwita Sunnan - dæg White Sunday; cf. Icel. hvítasunnu- spiral bore, the angles of which were rounded off, dagr=White Sunday; hwita - dag a (lit.=white days), and fired a projectile (sometimes called the Whit- a name for Whitsun-week, which was also called worth-ball), the middle part of which fitted the hvita - dag a - vika =White days-week, and hvítasunnu dags - vika Whit sunday's-week; so also Norw. kvit sunndag (lit. White Sunday) = Whit sunday, and kvitsunn - vika = Whitsun-week. The name was derived from the white garments worn on that day by candidates for ordination and children presented for baptism. The older name was Pentecost (q. v.). ( Skeat .)] 1. The seventh Sunday after Easter; a festival of the Church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. 2. In Scotland the name given to one of the term days (May 15, or May 26, old style), in which rents, annuities, ministers' stipends, ., are paid, servants are engaged and paid, and the like. The Whit sunday removal term in the towns is now legally fixed for May 28. Whit-sun-tide, s. [Eng. Whitsun (day); -tide .] The week commencing with Whit sunday (q. v.), especially Whit sunday, Whit monday, and the Tues day immediately following. [WHITSUN.]