whist
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1. whist - Noun
2. whist - Adjective
3. whist - Verb
4. whist - Interjection
Meaning
Be silent; be still; hush; silence.
A certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed.
To hush or silence.
To be or become silent or still; to be hushed or mute.
Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet.
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The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
I love to play bid whist as much as I love football.
He seems a very harmless sort of young man, nothing to like or dislike in him - goes out shooting or hunting with the two others all the morning, and plays at whist and makes queer faces in the evening.
Come unto these yellow sands, 'And then take hands Curtsied when you have, and kissed - The wild waves whist.
By this time whist was governed by elaborate and rigid rules covering the laws of the game, etiquette and play which took time to study and master.
Candidate for Vice President Thurman spent his retirement reading French novels in the original language, playing whist, and amusing himself with mathematical problems; he had a reputation as one of the best mathematicians in Ohio.