whip round

A collection or subscription among friends or neighbors. "[Her] neighbors, who knew that she had no money, instituted a whip - round , and soon raised the nece ary amount."-London Echo. whip-saw, s . A thin, narrow saw-blade, strained in a frame, and used as a compa -saw in following curved lines. [WHIPSAW, v . t.] whip-shaped, adj. Shaped like the lash of a whip. [FLAGELLIFORM.] whip-snake, s. Zoology : Any species of the family Dryiophide. They may be readily distinguished by their exce ively slender back and tail, which has been compared to the thong of a whip, and long and narrow head, which ends in a protruding rostral shield or in a flexible snout. They are arboreal in habit, usually green in color, and feed on birds and lizards. Wallace puts the genera at five and the species at fifteen, all from the tropical regions. 2. A coal-whipper (q. v.). *3. Something superexcellent. ( Slang.) "This relique here is a whipper." - Heywood: Four P.'s. II. Technically: 1. Church Hist .: The Flagellants (q. v.). "A brood of mad here ticks, which arose in the church; whom they called Flag ell antes, 'the whippers ."-Bp. Hall: Women's Vail. 2. Spinning: A simple kind of willow or willy. whipper-in, s. 1. Hunting : A man employed to keep the hounds from wandering, and to whip them in if nece ary to the line of scent. IMG:content-0836.png:[blocks in formation] be whipped; 25 Vict., c. 18, limits the number of strokes to twelve, with a birch-rod, for a boy under twelve years old. The Act 26 & 27 Vict., c. 44, extends whipping to males of any age convicted of robbery with violence, such as garroting. The criminal may be whipped once, twice, or three times. If he be under sixteen, the number of strokes inflicted at each whipping must not exceed twenty-five; if he be above sixteen, they must not exceed fifty. In the United States whipping as a punishment has been everywhere abolished, with the exception of the state of Delaware, where it is still inflicted for wife-beating. *whipping-boy, s. A boy formerly educated with a prince and punished in his stead. ( Fuller : Church Hist . , ii. 382.) *whipping-cheer, subst . Flogging, flagellation, chastisement. "She shall have whipping - cheer enough, I warrant her." -Shakesp .: Henry IV ., Pt . II ., v. 4. *whipping-crust, s. (See extract.) "I'll give thee white wine, red wine IMG:content-0837.png:[blocks in formation] "All sorts of whipping - snapping Tom Thumbs." Thack eray: Roundabout Papers , xv.