[hwist, wist] 
| a card game, an early form of bridge, but without bidding. |
[hwist, wist] | 1. | hush! silence! be still! |
| 2. | hushed; silent; still. |
| 3. | Chiefly Irish. silence: Hold your whist. |
| 4. | British Dialect. to be or become silent. |
| 5. | British Dialect. to silence. |
| 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.] |
