Crossword-Solution: WHIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Whist | interj. | Be silent; be still; hush; silence. |
| Whist | n. | A certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed. |
| Whist | v. t. | To hush or silence. |
| Whist | v. i. | To be or become silent or still; to be hushed or mute. |
| Whist | a. | Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WHIST | anagram | WHITS |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Sentences with WHIST (5)
Probably, as with persons playing whist for love, the consciousness of a certain immunity under any circumstances from that worst possible ultimate, the having to pay, makes them unduly speculative.
Murray, Sir John Hardy, and Colonel Moran—showed that the game was whist, and that there was a fairly equal fall of the cards.
She had observed that my lady made mistakes in her game of whist for the first time in our experience of her.
Knightley’s not dancing than by any thing else.—There he was, among the standers-by, where he ought not to be; he ought to be dancing,—not classing himself with the husbands, and fathers, and whist-players, who were pretending to feel an interest in the dance till their rubbers were made up,—so young as he looked!—He could not have appeared to greater advantage perhaps anywhere, than where he had placed himself.
The former left them soon after tea to fulfill her evening engagements; and Elinor was obliged to assist in making a whist table for the others.
Quotes with WHIST (3)
Believe me, Dirk; I've been in this game a long time and I know what I'm talking about. I've seen it all; wife swapping during a coach tour of Norfolk churches, orgies at a pensioners' whist drive in Somerset; a mystery weekend where the real mystery turned out to be, what was Mr Preston doing hanging upside down in the wardrobe with an apple in his mouth.
With belles no longer did he fall in love, but dangled after them just anyhow; when they refused, he solaced in a twinkle; when they betrayed, was glad to rest. He would seek them without intoxication, while he left them without regret, hardly remembering their love and spite. Exactly thus does an indifferent guestdrive up for evening whist: sits down; then, once the game is over, he drives off from the place, at home falls peacefully asleep, and in the morning does not know …
There are portions of the sovereign people who spend most of their spare time and spare money on motoring and comparing motor cars, on bridge-whist and post-mortems, on moving pictures and potboilers, talking always to the same people with minute variations on the same old themes. They cannot really be said to suffer from censorship, or secrecy, the high cost or the difficulty of communication. They suffer from anemia, from lack of appetite and curiosity for the human scene. …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 55 times in crossword archives (1943–2023).