1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. [Obs.]

And which they weren and of what degree.

Chaucer.

2. 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.

Which of you convinceth me of sin?

John viii. 46.

3. 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.

And when thou fail'st — as God forbid the hour! — Must Edward fall,

which peril heaven forfend!

Shak.

God . . . rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had

made.

Gen. ii. 2.

Our Father, which art in heaven.

Matt. vi. 9.

The temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

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