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Dictionary definition: whipping post
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      133 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 whipping post a post to which offenders are tied to be whipped as a legal punishment Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Dictionary definition: whip scorpion
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      148 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 whip scorpion any of various tropical or subtropical arachnids (esp. order Uropygi) resembling the scorpion but ...

Dictionary definition: whip snake
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      149 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 whip snake 1. any of various long, slender, nonpoisonous colubrine snakes that often live in trees 2. any of ...

Dictionary definition: whirlpool bath
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      141 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 whirlpool bath a bath, as used in hydrotherapy, in which an agitating device propels a current of warm water with a swirling motion Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Dictionary definition: whirlwind
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      179 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 whirl|wind (-wind) n. 1. a current of air whirling violently upward in a spiral motion around a more or less ...

Dictionary definition: whisht
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      131 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 whisht (hwisht, wisht) interj., n., vt. [Chiefly Scot. or Irish] hush; silence Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Dictionary definition: whisk
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      195 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 whisk (hwisk, wisk) n. 1. a)the act of brushing with a quick, light, sweeping motion b)such a motion ...