whodet

An obsolete form of hood. I maruell that he sent not therwith a foxes tayle for a scepture, and a whode with two eares. Bp. Bale , English Votaries, fol. 104. whoever (hö-ev'èr), indef . pron . [ who + ever .] Any person whatever; no matter who; any one without exception. For soth by a solemne day he was wont to leeue to hem oon bounden, whom euere the i axiden. Wyclif , Mark xv. 6. Whoever bound him, I will loose his bonds. Shak., C. of E., v. 1. 339. Whoever in those gla es looks may find The spots return'd, or graces, of his mind, And by the help of so divine an art, At leisure view and dre his nobler part. Holy Rood (ed. Morris), p. 118. " Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore. Byron, Don Juan, iv. 12. As who saith. Same as as who should say. Waller, Upon B. Jonson. IMG:content-2348.png:[blocks in formation] whole