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Definition of whist

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Whist (n.) A certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed..

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Whistle :: Whistle (v. t.) To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air..

Pipe :: Pipe (v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle..

Law :: Law (n.) In arts, works, games, etc.: The rules of construction, or of procedure, conforming to the conditions of success; a principle, maxim; or usage; as, the laws of poetry, of architecture, of courtesy, or of whist..

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) In the game of casino, a pairing or combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks (thirteen) in a hand; a slam..

Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The whistlefish.

Elke :: Elke (n.) The European wild or whistling swan (Cygnus ferus).

Pue :: Pue (v. i.) To make a low whistling sound; to chirp, as birds..

Whistling :: Whistling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whistl.

Birdcall :: Birdcall (n.) An instrument of any kind, as a whistle, used in making the sound of a birdcall..

Whistling :: Whistling () a. & n. from Whistle, v..

Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) An instrument in which gas or steam forced into a cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam)..

Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The golden-eye.

Hooper :: Hooper (n.) The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); -- called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk..

Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air..

Blow :: Blow (n.) The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows..

Whistled :: Whistled (imp. & p. p.) of Whistl.

Golden-eye :: Golden-eye (n.) A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common..

Rubber :: Rubber (n.) In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist..

Cooee :: Cooee (n.) A peculiar whistling sound made by the Australian aborigenes as a call or signal.

Swollen :: Swobber (n.) Four privileged cards, formerly used in betting at the game of whist..