Whin"ny (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Whinnied (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Whinnying.] [From Whine] To utter the ordinary call or cry of a horse;
to neigh.
Whin"ny, n.; pl. Whinnies (&?;). The ordinary cry or call of a horse; a
neigh. "The stately horse . . . stooped with a low whinny." Tennyson.
Whin"ny, a. Abounding in whin, gorse, or furze.
A fine, large, whinny, . . . unimproved common.
Sterne.
Whin"ock (hwn"k), n. [Cf. Scot. whin, quhene, a few, AS. hwne, hwne, a
little, hwn little, few. Cf. Wheen.] The small pig of a litter. [Local,
U. S.]
Whin"stone" (?), n. [Whin + stone; cf. Scot. quhynstane.] A provincial
name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other
kind of dark- colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the
pick. — for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills,
are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.
Whin"yard (?), n. [Cf. Prov. E. & Scot. whingar, whinger; perhaps from
AS. winn contention, war + geard, gyrd, a staff, rod, yard; or cf. AS.
hwnan to whistle, E. whine.] 1. A sword, or hanger. [Obs.]
2. [From the shape of the bill.] (Zoöl) (a) The shoveler. [Prov. Eng.]
(b) The poachard. [Prov. Eng.]
Whip (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Whipped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Whipping.]
[OE. whippen to overlay, as a cord, with other cords, probably akin to
G. & D. wippen to shake, to move up and down, Sw. vippa, Dan. vippe to
swing to and fro, to shake, to toss up, and L. vibrare to shake. Cf.
Vibrate.]
1. To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe;
to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.
2. To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by
lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.
3. To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to
whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse
boy.
Who, for false quantities, was whipped at school.
Dryden.
4. To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm,
abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.
They would whip me with their fine wits.
Shak.