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| WHEEDLE | | v. (-ling) 1 coax by flattery or endearments.
- (foll. By out) get (a thing) out of a person or cheat (a person) out of a thing by wheedling. [origin uncertain] | |
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| WHEELER | | comb. Form vehicle with a specified number of wheels (three-wheeler). | |
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| WHEELIE | | n. Slang stunt of riding a bicycle or motor cycle with the front wheel off the ground. | |
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| WHEREAS | | conj. - in contrast or comparison with the fact that.
- (esp. In legal preambles) taking into consideration the fact that. | |
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| WHEREBY | | conj. By what or which means. | |
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| WHEREIN | | conj. Formal in what or which place or respect. | |
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| WHEREOF | | conj. Formal of what or which. | |
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| WHETHER | | conj. Introducing the first or both of alternative possibilities (i doubt whether it matters; i do not know whether they have arrived or not). whether or no whether it is so or not. [old english] | |
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| WHIMPER | | —v. Make feeble, querulous, or frightened sounds. —n. Such a sound. [imitative] | |
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| WHIPPET | | n. Crossbred dog of the greyhound type used for racing. [probably from obsolete whippet move briskly, from whip it] | |
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