An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 969

WHISTLE-BINKIE, _s._ One who attends a penny-wedding, but without paying any thing, and therefore has no right to take any share of the entertainment; who is as it were left to sit on a _bench_ by himself, and may _whistle_ for his own amus.e.m.e.nt, Aberd.

WHISTLE-THE-WHAUP, a phrase addressed to one who is supposed to play upon another, West of S.

_To_ WHITE, _v. a._ To cut with a knife, S.

V. ~Quhyte~.

_Burns._

WHITE-ABOON-GLADE, _s._ The Henharrier, Stirlings.

_Stat. Acc._

Corresponding with Lanarius _albus_, Le Lanier _cendre_, &c.

WHITE BONNET, one who, in a sale by auction, bids for his own goods, or who is employed by the owner for this purpose, S.

WHITE FISH IN THE NET, a sport in which two persons hold a plaid pretty high, over which the rest of the company are obliged to leap. The object is to entangle the person who leaps; and if thus intercepted he loses the game, Ang.

WHITE-HORSE, the Fuller ray, a fish.

_Sibbald._

WHITIE-WHATIES, _s. pl._ Silly pretences, from a design to procrastinate, or to blind S.; _whittie-whaws_, S. B.

A. S. _hwata_, omina, divinationes, auguria; Belg. _wisiewasie_, fiddle-faddle; C. B. _chwit-chwat_, a sly pilferer.

WHITLIE, QUHITELY, _adj._ Having a delicate or fading look, S.

_Henrysone._

A. S. _hwit_, albus, and _lic_, similis.

WHITLING, WHITEN, WHITING, _s._ A species of sea-trout, S.

_Stat. Acc._

Sw. _hwitling_, a whiting.

WHITRACK-SKIN, _s._ A purse made of the skin of a weasel, Moray.

V. ~Quhitred~.

_Pop. Ball._

WHITTER, _s._ A hearty draught of liquor, S. O.

_Burns._

Q. _whetter_, from E. _whet_.

WHITTLE, _s._

1. A knife, S. as in E.

2. Applied to the harvest-hook, S.

_A. Douglas._

WHITTRET, _s._ The weasel.

V. ~Quhitred~.

WHORLE, _s._

1. A very small wheel, S.

2. The fly of a spinning-rock, made of wood, sometimes of a hard stone, S. _whirl_, E.

_Barry._

Su. G. _harfwel_, _hwirfwel_, id., verticillum; O. Sw. _hworla_, rotare.

_To_ WHOSLE, _v. n._ To breathe hard, to wheeze, Aberd.

V. ~Wheasle~.

_Journ. Lond._

_To_ WHUMMIL, WHOMEL, _v. a._ To turn upside down.

V. ~Quhemle~.