[Prov. Eng.]
Whinberry
(Whin"ber*ry) n. (Bot.) The English bilberry; — so called because it grows on moors among
the whins, or furze. Dr. Prior.
Whinchat
(Whin"chat`) n. [So called because it frequents whins.] (Zoöl.) A small warbler (Pratincola
rubetra) common in Europe; — called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet.
Whine
(Whine) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Whined ; p. pr. & vb. n. Whining.] [OE. whinen, AS. hwinan
to make a whistling, whizzing sound; akin to Icel. hvina, Sw. hvina, Dan. hvine, and probably to G.
wiehern to neigh, OHG. wihon, hweijon; perhaps of imitative origin. Cf. Whinny, v. i.] To utter a
plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or
the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely.
"Whining plovers." Spenser.
The hounds were . . . staying their coming, but with a whining accent, craving liberty.
Sir P. Sidney.
Dost thou come here to whine?
Shak. Whine
(Whine), v. t. To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way; as, to whine out an
excuse.
Whine
(Whine), n. A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.
Whiner
(Whin"er) n. One who, or that which, whines.
Whinge
(Whinge) v. i. To whine. [Scot.] Burns.
Whinger
(Whing"er), n. [See Whinyard.] A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a
weapon. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
The chief acknowledged that he had corrected her with his whinger.
Sir W. Scott. Whiningly
(Whin"ing*ly) adv. In a whining manner; in a tone of mean complaint.
Whinner
(Whin"ner) v. i. To whinny. [Colloq.]
Whinny
(Whin"ny) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Whinnied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Whinnying.] [From Whine] To utter
the ordinary call or cry of a horse; to neigh.
Whinny
(Whin"ny), n.; pl. Whinnies The ordinary cry or call of a horse; a neigh. "The stately horse . .
. stooped with a low whinny." Tennyson.
Whinny
(Whin"ny), a. Abounding in whin, gorse, or furze.
A fine, large, whinny, . . . unimproved common.
Sterne. Whinock
(Whin"ock) n. [Cf. Scot. whin, quhene, a few, AS. hwene, hw&aemacrne, a little, hwon
little, few. Cf. Wheen.] The small pig of a litter. [Local, U. S.]
Whinstone
(Whin"stone") n. [Whin + stone; cf. Scot. quhynstane.] A provincial name given in England
to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark- colored unstratified rocks which resist the
point of the pick. — for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes
given to veins or beds of basalt.
