| whitsour | <botany> A sort of apple. Origin: White + sour. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| whitsunday | 1. The seventh Sunday, and the fiftieth day, after Easter; a festival of the church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; Pentecost; so called, it is said, because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments. 2. See the Note under Term. Origin: White + Sunday. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitten tree | <botany> Either of two shrubs (Viburnum Lantana, and V. Opulus), so called on account of their whitish branches. Origin: Probably from white; cf. AS. Hwitingtreow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whittle | 1. To pare or cut off the surface of with a small knife; to cut or shape, as a piece of wood held in the hand, with a clasp knife or pocketknife. 2. To edge; to sharpen; to render eager or excited; especially, to excite with liquor; to inebriate. ""In vino veritas." When men are well whittled, their tongues run at random." (Withals) Origin: Whittled; Whittling. To cut or shape a piece of wood with am small knife; to cut up a piece of wood with a knife. "Dexterity with a pocketknife is a part of a Nantucket education; but I am inclined to think the propensity is national. Americans must and will whittle." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whittret | <zoology> A weasel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whittuesday | The day following Whitmonday; called also Whitsun Tuesday. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitwall | <zoology> Same as Whetile. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| who | 1. Originally, an interrogative pronoun, later, a relative pronoun also; used always substantively, and either as singular or plural. See the Note under What. As interrogative pronouns, who and whom ask the question: What or which person or persons? Who and whom, as relative pronouns (in the sense of that), are properly used of persons (corresponding to which, as applied to things), but are sometimes, less properly and now rarely, used of animals, plants, etc. Who and whom, as compound relatives, are also used especially of persons, meaning the person that; the persons that; the one that; whosoever. "Let who will be President." "[He] should not tell whose children they were." (Chaucer) "There thou tell'st of kings, and who aspire; Who fall, who rise, who triumph, who do moan." (Daniel) "Adders who with cloven tongues Do hiss into madness." (Shak) "Whom I could pity thus forlorn." (Milton) "How hard is our fate, who serve in the state." (Addison) "Who cheapens life, abates the fear of death." (Young) "The brace of large greyhounds, who were the companions of his sports." (Sir W. Scott) 2. One; any; one. "As who should say, it were a very dangerous matter if a man in any point should be found wiser than his forefathers were." (Robynson (More's Utopia)) Origin: OE. Who, wha, AS. Hwa, interrogative pron, neut. Hwaet; akin to OFries. Hwa, neut. Hwet, OS. Hwe, neut. Hwat, D. Wie, neut. Wat, G. Wer, neut.was, OHG. Wer, hwer, neut. Waz, hwaz, Icel. Hvat, neut, Dan. Hvo, neut. Hvad, Sw. Ho, hvem, neut. Hvad, Goth. Hwas, fem. Hwo, neut. Hwa, Lith. Kas, Ir. & Gael. Co, W. Pwy, L. Quod, neuter of qui, Gr. Poteros whether, Skr. Kas. Cf. How, Quantity, Quorum, Quote, Ubiquity, What, When, Where, Whether, Which, Whither, Whom, Why. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whole | 1. Containing the total amount, number, etc.; comprising all the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire; as, the whole earth; the whole solar system; the whole army; the whole nation. "On their whole host I flew unarmed." "The whole race of mankind." (Shak) 2. Complete; entire; not defective or imperfect; not broken or fractured; unimpaired; uninjured; integral; as, a whole orange; the egg is whole; the vessel is whole. "My life is yet whole in me." (2 Sam. I. 9) 3. Possessing, or being in a state of, heath and soundness; healthy; sound; well. "[She] findeth there her friends hole and sound." (Chaucer) "They that be whole need not a physician." (Matt. Ix. 12) "When Sir Lancelot's deadly hurt was whole." (Tennyson) Whole blood. The common snipe, as distinguished from the smaller jacksnipe. Synonym: All, total, complete, entire, integral, undivided, uninjured, unimpaired, unbroken, healthy. Whole, Total, Entire, Complete. When we use the word whole, we refer to a thing as made up of parts, none of which are wanting; as, a whole week; a whole year; the whole creation. When we use the word total, we have reference to all as taken together, and forming a single totality; as, the total amount; the total income. When we speak of a thing as entire, we have no reference to parts at all, but regard the thing as an integer, i. E, continuous or unbroken; as, an entire year; entire prosperity. When we speak of a thing as complete, there is reference to some progress which results in a filling out to some end or object, or a perfected state with no deficiency; as, complete success; a complete victory. "All the whole army stood agazed on him." (Shak) "One entire and perfect chrysolite." (Shak) "Lest total darkness should by night regain Her old possession, and extinguish life." (Milton) "So absolute she seems, And in herself complete." (Milton) Origin: OE. Hole, hol, hal, hool, AS. Hal well, sound, healthy; akin to OFries. & OS. Hl, D. Heel, G. Heil, Icel. Heill, Sw. Hel whole, Dan. Heel, Goth. Hails well, sound, OIr. Cl augury. Cf. Hale, Hail to greet, Heal to cure, Health, Holy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whole blood | <haematology> Blood that has not been separated into its various components. (13 Nov 1997) |
| whole blood coagulation time | Measurement of the time required by whole blood to produce a visible clot. Factors that could influence the test are all but III, vii, and xiii. Activation may be by contact with the glass tube or exposure to diatomaceous earth. Delay of onset of coagulation may be achieved by use of nonwettable plastic or silicone-coated glass tubes. It is used for monitoring heparin therapy and as a bedside screening test for deficiencies in the intrinsic coagulation pathway. "activated coagulation time" is sometimes referred to as act. (12 Dec 1998) |
| whole cell patch | <physiology> A variant of patch clamp technique, in which the patch electrode seals against the cell, with direct communication between the interior of the electrode and the cytoplasm. (18 Nov 1997) |
| whole mount | <procedure> Placing a whole organism or specimen on a slide for microscopic examination. (13 Nov 1997) |
| whole-arm fusion | <genetics, molecular biology> A break in the shortest arms of two acrocentric chromosomes followed by the fusion of the long arms into a single chromosome. (13 Nov 1997) |
| whole-body counter | Shielding and instrumentation, usually involving more than one detector, designed to evaluate the total-body burden of various gamma-emitting nuclides. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wheeze |
A high-pitched whistling noise made when narrowed airway passages cause difficulty in breathing.
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| whey |
The fluid portion of milk that separates from curd.
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| whipworm |
Common name for roundworm (Trichuris trichiura).
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| Whipple's disease |
Chronic intestinal infestation which may be associated with malabsorption
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| white line |
the outer edge of the lips where fillers are placed to accentuate lip fullness
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| WH | utter with a puff of air |
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| WH | smoke and exhale strongly |
| WH | of a baseball batter: strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third |
| WH | drive or carry as if by a puff of air |
| WH | perceive by inhaling through the nose |
| WH | a batter who strikes out by swinging at and missing the third strike |
| WH | a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling |
| WH | a member of the Whig Party in the United States in pre-Civil-War times |
| WH | a supporter of the American Revolution |
| WH | urged social reform in 19th century England |
| WH | a former political party in the United States |
| WH | a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition |