One day an unknown youth asked Mozart to explain to him how to start to compose a symphony.
- You are young, - answered Mozart. In the beginning write a ballade, and if you like it, come to me.
- But you! At the age of ten you have composed a lot of music.
- But I did not ask anybody how to do it.
- (foll. By out) get (a thing) out of a person or cheat (a person) out of a thing by wheedling. [origin uncertain]
WHEELER
comb. Form vehicle with a specified number of wheels (three-wheeler).
WHEELIE
n. Slang stunt of riding a bicycle or motor cycle with the front wheel off the ground.
WHEREAS
conj. - in contrast or comparison with the fact that.
- (esp. In legal preambles) taking into consideration the fact that.
WHEREBY
conj. By what or which means.
WHEREIN
conj. Formal in what or which place or respect.
WHEREOF
conj. Formal of what or which.
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]
WHIMPER
—v. Make feeble, querulous, or frightened sounds. —n. Such a sound. [imitative]
WHIPPET
n. Crossbred dog of the greyhound type used for racing. [probably from obsolete whippet move briskly, from whip it]
