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  • English Word Wheyey Definition Of the nature of, or containing, whey; resembling whey; wheyish.
  • English Word Wheyface Definition One who is pale, as from fear.
  • English Word Wheyish Definition Somewhat like whey; wheyey.
  • English Word Which Definition Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • English Word Which Definition A interrogative pronoun, used both substantively and adjectively, and in direct and indirect questions, to ask for, or refer to, an individual person or thing among several of a class; as, which man is it? which woman was it? which is the house? he asked which route he should take; which is best, to live or to die? See the Note under What, pron., 1.
  • English Word Which Definition A relative pronoun, used esp. in referring to an antecedent noun or clause, but sometimes with reference to what is specified or implied in a sentence, or to a following noun or clause (generally involving a reference, however, to something which has preceded). It is used in all numbers and genders, and was formerly used of persons.
  • English Word Which Definition A compound relative or indefinite pronoun, standing for any one which, whichever, that which, those which, the . . . which, and the like; as, take which you will.
  • English Word Whichever Definition Alt. of Whichsoever
  • English Word Whichsoever Definition Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • English Word Whidah bird Definition Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to the genus Vidua, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called also vida finch, whidah finch, whydah bird, whydah finch, widow bird, and widow finch.
  • English Word Whider Definition Whither.
  • English Word Whiff Definition A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke.
  • English Word Whiff Definition A glimpse; a hasty view.
  • English Word Whiff Definition The marysole, or sail fluke.
  • English Word Whiff Definition To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
  • English Word Whiff Definition To carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff or blow away.
  • English Word Whiff Definition To emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff.
  • English Word Whiffed Definition of Whiff
  • English Word Whiffet Definition A little whiff or puff.
  • English Word Whiffing Definition of Whiff
  • English Word Whiffing Definition The act of one who, or that which, whiffs.
  • English Word Whiffing Definition A mode of fishing with a hand line for pollack, mackerel, and the like.
  • English Word Whiffle Definition To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
  • English Word Whiffle Definition To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
  • English Word Whiffle Definition To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
  • English Word Whiffle Definition To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
  • English Word Whiffle Definition A fife or small flute.
  • English Word Whiffled Definition of Whiffle
  • English Word Whiffler Definition One who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler.
  • English Word Whiffler Definition One who plays on a whiffle; a fifer or piper.