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[WHITEY BROWN.] whiz, v . i . [An imitative word, allied to whistle ; cf. Icel. hvi a to hi .] To make a humming or hi ing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air. "The exhalations, whizzing in the air." Shakesp.: Julius Cæsar, ii. 1. whiz, subst . [WHIZ, v.] A humming or hi ing sound. "He never once ducked at the whiz of a cannon-ball."Guardian, No. 92. *whiz'-le (le as el), v . i . [A frequent. from whiz (q. v.).] To whiz, to whistle. "The winds through perst chinck narroyle whizling." Stanyhurst: Virgil's Æneid, i. 92. whiz'-zing, pr. par. or a. [WHIZ, v.] whiz-zing-ly, adv. [Eng. whizzing; -ly.] With a whizzing sound. whô ( w silent) (po , whose , acc us, whom ), pron . [A. S. hwd =who (interrogative), masc. & fem.; what , neut.; gen. hwæs , for all genders, dat. hwám , hwém, acc us., masc. & fem. hwone, neut. hwæt , instrumental hwi , huỷ (Eng. why ); cogn. with Dut. wie =who; wat =what; wiens =whose; wien =whom (dat. & acc us.); Icel. hverr , hver = who; hvat =what; hvers =whose; hverjum =whom (masc.), pl. hverir ; Dan. huo who; hvad =what; hvis whose; hvem = whom(dat.& acc us.); Sw.hvem = who, whom; head = what; hvems , hvars =whose; Ger. wer who; was =what; we en , we = whose; wem =to whom; wen =whom (acc us.); Goth. nom. hwas , hwo , hwa (or hwata ), genitive hwis , hwizos , hwis , dat. hwamma , hwizai, hwamma , accusative hwan a , hwo , hwa (or hwata ), instrumental hwe , pl. hvai , .: Ir. & Gael. co ; Wel. pwy ; Lat. quis , quæ , quid ; Ru . kto.chto who, what; Lith. kas who; Sanse, kas who; kim =what; kam = whom. "Formerly who , what , which were not relative but interrogative pronouns; which, whose, whom occur as relatives as early as the end of the twelfth century, but who not until the fourteenth century, and was not in common use whoa before the sixteenth century." ( Morris : Hist . Outlines of Eng. Accidence, § 188.) In genuine idiomatic Scotch who , or wha (including also the po e ive and objective), is still only an interrogative, that , or ' at , being the relative.] A relative and interrogative pronoun, always used substantively (that is, not joined to a noun), and referring to one or more persons. It is uninflected for number, but has whose for its po e ive, and whom for the objective. 1. As an interrogative pronoun =what person or persons? " Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions?"- Proverbs xxiii. 29. 2. As a relative pronoun =that. "Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own." Dryden: Imit. Horace , bk. iii., ode. 29. 3. Used elliptically =he (or they) who. " Who steals my purse steals trash.' Shakesp.: Othello, iii. 3. 4. Whoever. "Let it be who it is." Shakesp.: Julius Cæsar, i. 3. Who is used as a relative referring to persons, which to things, and that to either indifferently. Who and which are used in two ways: (1) To connect two coordinate sentences; as, I met a man who told me; I read the book which pleased me. Each of these sentences could be turned into two propositions; as, I met a man and he told me; I read the book and it pleased me. (2) To introduce subordinate or adjectival clauses; as, The book which you are reading; the man who told me. In these cases who and which cannot be turned into and he or and IMG:content-0870.png:[blocks in formation] "Hope throws a generous contempt upon ill usage, and looks like a handsome defiance of a misfortune; as who should say, you are somewhat troublesome now, but I shall conquer you." -Collier : Against Despair. 4509 is not yet cut; and a complete orange is grown to its full size; it is po ible, therefore, for a thing to be whole and not entire ; and to be both, and yet not complete: An orange cut into parts is whole while all the parts remain together, but it is not entire: Hence we speak of a whole house, an entire set, and a complete book. The wholene or integ rity of a thing is destroyed at one's pleasure; the completene depends upon circumstances. ( Crabb .) *(1) By whole sale; By the whole: Wholesale. "If the currier bought not leather by the whole." Greene: Quip for an Upstart Courtier. (2) Upon the whole : All things considered; tak ing all things into account; upon a review of the whole matter; altogether.