whist
noun
a card game, an early form of bridge, but without bidding.
whisted
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past participleof whist.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof whist.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
whistnouna card game, an early form of bridge, but without bidding.
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It also meant to keep silent, as in Surrey's "Virgil": "They whisted all, with fixed face intent."
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
