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i. [A frequent. from wheeze (q. v.).] To wheeze. ( Scotch.) whale, *whal, *qual, subst . [A. S. hwal ; cogn. with Dut. walvisch whale-fish; Icel. hvalr ; Dan. & Sw. hval ; Ger. wal , wallfisch .] pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot. 2. Phalaropus fulicarius . [PHALAROPE.] "Mr. Kumlien mentions seeing several flocks of Gray Phalaropes about two hundred miles off the coast of Lab- rad or, at which place they were known as the Whale - bird , from the habit they have of following the whales, and approaching closely when they blow, in order to catch the small insects that are disturbed."-W. Sways land : Familiar Wild Birds , iii. 120. whale-boat, s . whale-fin, s. A name commonly given in com is employed for many purposes, as for ribs to um- merce to whalebone (q. v.). *whale-fish, s. A whale. "As far as the whale - ships go." Long fellow : Discoverer of the North Cape. *whale-shot, s. An old name for spermaceti. *whale's bone, s. An old term for ivory, per- haps from the circumstance that the ivory of West- ern Europe in the Middle Ages was the tooth of the walrus, which may have been confounded with the whale. ( Nares .) "To show his teeth as white as whale's bone." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost , v. 2. whale, v . t . [A variant of wale (q. v.).] To lash with stripes; to thrash, to beat, to whack. IMG:content-0802.jpg:[merged small][merged small][graphic][merged small] design, as it gives such an easy entrance; and, in- stead of cleaving the water, rides over it. The ves- sels are constructed after the ordinary model in the bottom, with double bottom for water ballast, but the frames are continuous from center line of keel to center line of deck, thus making the deck and sides much stronger than the deck and top- sides of an ordinary ve el. The hatches are so ar- ranged as to give back the full strength to the hull when the hatch plates are bolted on, a feature that the ordinary type of ve el lacks, as there is simply an opening covered with wood and the strength is not renewed. From the "101," the first ve el of the whaleback model that was built, down to the "Chris- topher Columbus," about forty ve els of this type have been constructed, and designs are already out IMG:content-0803.jpg:[ocr errors] IMG:content-0804.jpg:[blocks in formation] what, *whatte, pron ., adv . & s. [A. S. hwæt, neut. of hwá =who (q. v.); cogn. with Dutch wat ; Icel. hvat ; Dan. hvad ; Sw. hvad ; Ger. was ; Latin quid ; Goth. hwata .] A. As pronoun : 1. An interrogative pronoun, used in a correspond- ing manner to who , in asking questions as to things, circumstances, events, ideas, ., and as to *2. The bank of a river or the shore of a sea. "The fat weed That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf." Shakesp.: Hamlet , i. 5. IMG:content-0805.png:[blocks in formation] " What great danger dwells upon my suit?" Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis , 206. 2. Used absolutely in introducing a question em- IMG:content-0806.png:[blocks in formation] Shakesp .: Tempest . (Epilogue.) (3) Referring to a preceding substantive=that (or those) which, such as. "Draw no swords but what are sanctified." Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Pt . II ., iv. 4. 5. Used for who, but only in the predicate. " What is this maid?"- Shakesp .: Tempest, v. 6. What thing or person soever; whatever or whoever, whatsoever or whosoever. "Be what thou wilt, thou art my prisoner." Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Pt . I., v. 3. "What with the war, what with the sweat, what with the gallows, and what with poverty, I am custom-shrunk."- Shakesp .: Measure for Measure , i. 2. 8. Used elliptically, in certain phrases, as- (1) What if what would be the consequence if? 2. A wharf or wharfs collectively. "The ma ive stone wharfage that lines the glorious what will it matter if? what would you say if? river."- Scribner's Magazine , August, 1880, p. 559. (2) What of what follows from? why do you mention? what is the matter with? "All this is so, but what of this, my lord?" Shakesp.: Much Ado , iv. 1. In the expre ion, What of the night? (Isa. xxi. 11) there is an ellipsis of the word "part," so that the inquiry is, What remains of the night? How much of it is past? The Vulgate, however ( Quid de nocte ?) follows the commoner but le cor- rect interpretation, What tidings as to the state of IMG:content-0807.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0808.png:[blocks in formation] granting or supposing that; admitting that. "What though care killed a cat?"- Shakesp .: Much Ado , v. 1. *Also used alone=no matter, never mind, it is all one. "But what though ! courage!" wharre, s . [Wel.chweru=austere, bitter.] Bot .: The crab-apple tree. Wharton, s . [See def.] The discoverer of the time, what day, what hour , ., what at the time, 9. In such obsolete or poetical phrases as what day, ., when. "I made thee miserable, What time I threw the people's suffrages On him." Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus , iv. 3. Ornith.: Saxicola ænanthe ; called also the Fal- low-chat and Fallow-finch. A well-known Euro- pean singing-bird. Length about six inches; upper parts light silver-gray, with patch of white on rump; quill-feathers, coverts, middle tail-feathers, and tips of rectrices (which are white), deep black; black streak from edge of beak to ear, enveloping the eye and spreading to ear-coverts; breast, orange-buff; belly, white. "The wheatear is another early visitor. It is supposed to be the Laureate's 'sea-blue bird of March, 'but I believe he has never spoken conclusively on the point."- St . James's Gazette, March 9, 1887. wheat-en, adject. [Eng. wheat; -en.] Made of wheat; obtained from wheat. "His diet was of wheaten bread, And milk, and oats, and straw." Wheat-stone, s. [See def.] Sir C. Wheat stone, the electrician (1802-75). Wheat stone's bridge, s . [ELECTRIC-BRIDGE.] *wheder, pron . or conj . [WHETHER.] whee-dle, v. t. & i. [According to Skeat, prob a- bly for weedle , from Ger. wedeln =to wag the tail, to fan, from wedel =a fan, a tail, a brush; M. H. Ger. wadel ; O. H. Ger. wadol =a tail.] "A laughing, toying, wheedling , whimp'ring she." Rowe : Jane Shore, i. whee-dle, s . [WHEEDLE, v.] Enticement, coax- ing, flattery. IMG:content-0809.jpg:[blocks in formation] hweowol; cogn. with Dut. wiel ; Icel. hjól ; Dan. huil; Sw.hjul.] "Let them pull all about mine ears, present me Death on the wheel , or at wild horses' heels." Shakesp.: Coriolanus , iii. 2. *(3) A circular body, a disc, an orb. *(4) A carriage, a chariot. "You must sing a-down, a-down, An you call him a-down-a. O, how the wheel becomes it!" punishment described under WHEEL, 8. , 1. 4. (2). 2. To break a fly ( butterfly , .) on the wheel: (1) To subject to a punishment out of all prop or- tion to the gravity of the offense and importance of the offender. ployed to raise heavy weights, the weight is at tached to a rope wound round the axle, and the power applied to a rope placed in the grooved rim of the wheel, or to a handle fixed at right angles to the rim of the wheel, for which an ordinary winch may be substituted. From the diagram it will be seen that this machine is a lever, the extremities of which are not points as in the normal form [LEVER, s.], but the circumference of the circles (the wheel and the axle), whose radii are C A, C в respectively. Hence the power and the weight are not attached to particular points in these circumferences, but to cords wound round them; and the imaginary simple lever A B (formed by joining the points A, B, where the cords become tangents to the circles) remains unaltered in position and magnitude. The con- ditions of equilibrium are that PX CA=WXCB; or, since the cir- cumferences of circles are prop or- tional to their radii, that P:W:: IMG:content-0810.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0811.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia 5. Wheel of life : [ZOETROPE.] 6. Wheels within wheels: A complication of circumstances, motives, influences, or the like. 7. To grease the wheels : To attain one's end by bribery.