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whist
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[hwist, wist] 
–noun
| a card game, an early form of bridge, but without bidding. |
whist
2 [hwist, wist] –interjection
| 1. | hush! silence! be still! |
–adjective
| 2. | hushed; silent; still. |
–noun
| 3. | Chiefly Irish. silence: Hold your whist. |
–verb (used without object)
| 4. | British Dialect. to be or become silent. |
–verb (used with object)
| 5. | British Dialect. to silence. |
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| whist (hwĭst, wĭst) n. A card game ancestral to bridge, played with a full deck by two teams of two players, in which the last card dealt indicates trump, tricks of four cards are played, and a point is scored for each trick over six won by each team. [Alteration (perhaps influenced by the exclamation whist, silence!) of obsolete and dialectal whisk, perhaps from whisk.] |
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Whist
Whist\, n. Bridge whist. See Bridge, n., above. Duplicate whist, a form of whist in playing which the hands are preserved as dealt and played again by other players, as when each side holds in the second round the cards played by the opposing side in the first round. Solo whist. See Solo whist, above. Whitecap \White"cap`\, n. A member of a self-appointed vigilance committee attempting by lynch-law methods to drive away or coerce persons obnoxious to it. Some early ones wore white hoods or masks. [U. S.] -- White"cap`, v. -- White"cap`per, n.Whist
Whist\, interj. [Cf. G. st! pst! bst! ???. Cf. Hist.] Be silent; be still; hush; silence.Whist
Whist\, n. [From Whist, interj.] 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. Note: Points are scored for the tricks taken in excess of six, and for the honors held. In long whist, now seldom played, ten points make the game; in short whist, now usually played in England, five points make the game. In American whist, so-called, honors are not counted, and seven points by tricks make the game.Whist
Whist\, v. t. [From Whist, interj.] To hush or silence. [Obs.] --Spenser.Whist
Whist\, v. i. To be or become silent or still; to be hushed or mute. [R.] --Surrey.Whist
Whist\, a. [Properly p. p. of whist, v.] Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet. "So whist and dead a silence." --Sir J. Harrington. The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kissed. --Milton. Note: This adjective generally follows its noun, or is used predicatively.
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Language Translation for : whist
Spanish:
whist,
German:
der Whist,
Japanese:
ホイスト
whist
card game, 1663, alteration of whisk "kind of card game," alluded to as early as 1529, perhaps so called from the notion of "whisking" up cards after each trick; altered perhaps from assumption that it was an interjection invoking silence, from whist "silent" (M.E.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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