whist

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge.
2. isim A session of playing this card game.
3. ünlem Alternative spelling of whisht. Silence!, quiet!, hush!, shhh!, shush!

   “… for scarcely had they descended one hundred feet, when a low “whist” from the girl, warned them of present danger.”

4. ünlem Onomatopoeia for slicing.

   “Well! she laid down her little golden head without fear; and whist! down came the axe, and it was off. So the mother wiped the axe and laughed.”

5. fiil To hush or shush; to still.

   “o was the Titaness put downe and whist”

6. fiil To become silent.

   “The fields whist, beasts, and fowls of divers bue”

7. sıfat Silent, hushed.

   “Come unto these yellow sands, / And then take hands: / Courtsied when you have and kiss'd / The wild waves whist, / Foot it featly here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.[…]”