D’Ossat and DuPerron, afterwards cardinals, were whipped by Clement VIII. for Henry IV. of France.--Fuller, Church History, ii. 342 (1655).
Mungo Murray stood for Charles I.
Raphael was flogged for the son of the marquis de Leganez, but, not seeing the justice of this arrangement, he ran away.--Lesage, Gil Blas, v. 1 (1724).
Whisker, the pony of Mr. Garland, Abel Cottage, Finchley.
/# There approached towards him a little, clattering, jingling, four-wheeled chaise, drawn by a little obstinate-looking, rough-coated pony, and driven by a little, fat, placid-faced old gentleman. Beside the little old gentleman sat a little old lady, plump and placid like himself, and the pony was coming along at his own pace, and doing exactly as he pleased with the whole concern. If the old gentleman remonstrated by shaking the reins, the pony replied by shaking his head. It was plain that the utmost the pony would consent to do was to go in his own way ... after his own fashion, or not at all.--C. Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, xiv. (1840).
Whiskerandos (Don Fero´lo), the sentimental lover of Tilburina.--Sheridan, The Critic, ii. 1 (1779).
Whist (Father of the game of), Edmond Hoyle (1672-1769).
Whistle (The). In the train of Anne of Denmark, when she went to Scotland with James VI., was a gigantic Dane of matchless drinking capacity. He had an ebony whistle, which, at the beginning of a drinking bout, he would lay on the table, and whoever was last able to blow it, was to be considered the “Champion of the Whistle.” In Scotland the Dane was defeated by Sir Robert Laurie, of Maxwelton, who, after three days’ and three nights’ hard drinking, left the Dane under the table, and “blew on the whistle his requiem shrill.” The whistle remained in the family several years, when it was won by Sir Walter Laurie, son of Sir Robert; and then by Walter Riddel, of Glenriddel, brother-in-law of Sir Walter Laurie. The last person who carried it off was Alexander Ferguson of Craigdarroch, son of “Annie Laurie” so well known.
⁂ Burns has a ballad on the subject, called The Whistle.
Whistle. The blackbird, says Drayton, is the only bird that whistles.