3. (Spinning) The fly of a spindle.

Whorled (?), a. Furnished with whorls; arranged in the form of a whorl

or whorls; verticillate; as, whorled leaves.

Whorl"er (?), n. A potter's wheel.

Whort (?), n. [See Whortleberry.] (Bot.) The whortleberry, or bilberry.

See Whortleberry (a).

Whor"tle (?), n. (Bot.) The whortleberry, or bilberry.

[He] looked ahead of him from behind a tump of whortles.

R. D. Blackmore.

Whor"tle*ber`ry (?), n. [AS. wyrtil a small shrub (dim. of wyrt wort) +

E. berry. See Wort, and cf. Huckleberry, Hurtleberry.] (Bot.) (a) In

England, the fruit of Vaccinium Myrtillus; also, the plant itself. See

Bilberry, 1. (b) The fruit of several shrubby plants of the genus

Gaylussacia; also, any one of these plants. See Huckleberry.

Whose (hz), pron. [OE. whos, whas, AS. hwæs, gen. of hw. See Who.] The

possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which.

Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee.

Gen. xxiv. 23.

The question whose solution I require.

Dryden.

Whose`so*ev"er (-s*v"r), pron. The possessive of whosoever. See

Whosoever.

Who"so (?), pron. Whosoever. Piers Plowman.

Whoso shrinks or falters now, . . . Brand the craven on his brow!

Whittier.

Who`so*ev"er (h`s*v"r), pron. Whatsoever person; any person whatever

that; whoever.

Whosoever will, let him take . . . freely.

Rev. xxii. 17.

Whot (?), a. Hot. [Obs.] Spenser.

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