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. Etym: [From Whist, interj.]
Defn: To hush or silence. [Obs.] Spenser.
WHIST
Whist, v. i.
Defn: To be or become silent or still; to be hushed or mute. [R.]
Surrey.
WHIST
Whist, a. Etym: [Properly p. p. of whist, v.]
Defn: 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.
WHISTLE
Whis"tle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Whistled; p. pr. & vb. n. Whistling.]
Etym: [AS. hwistlian; akin to Sw. hvissla, Dan. hvisle, Icel. hvisla
to whisper, and E. whisper. Whisper.]
1. To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds. The weary plowman leaves the task of day, And, trudging homeward, whistles on the way. Gay.