wherry (2)

[Wol.chwerw=bitter.] A liquor made from the pulp of crab-apples after the ver wherry.) (Prov.) juice is expre ed. (Sometimes called Crab wher'-ry-mạn, s. [Eng. wherry (1), and man.] One who rows a wherry. *wherve, subst . [A. S. hweorfan =to roll.] A balance (?). "So fine, so round, and even a thread she [the spider] spinnes, hanging thereunto herselfe, and using the weight of her owne bodie instead of a wherve."- P . Holland: Pliny , bk. xi., ch. xxiv. whet, whette, *whet-ten, v . t . [A. S. hwettan = to sharpen, from hwat keen, bold, brave, from O. Sax. hwat sharp, keen; cogn. with Dut. wetten to sharpen; Icel. hvetja to sharpen, to encourage, from hvatr bold, active, vigorous; Sw. vättja to whet; Ger. wetzen ; O. H. Ger. hwazan , from hwas = sharp.] 1. Literally : (1) To sharpen; to make sharp by rubbing on a stone or similar substance. "The bows they bend, and the knives they whet." Scott: Lady of the Lake, iv. 25. (2) To rub with or on a stone or similar substance for the purpose of sharpening. (3) To sharpen generally. "Here roams the wolf, the eagle whets his beak." Byron: Childe Harold, ii. 42. IMG:content-0819.png:[blocks in formation] " Whether of those twain did the will of his father?"*B. As adj.: Which of two. "And so wrought, That when the father him bethought, And sig he to whether side it drough. C. As conjunction: Gower: C. A. , ii. *1. Used as the sign of a question. "Whether is not this the sone of a carpenter?" *whether, adv . [WHITHER.]