Whist
noun
1.
a card game, an early form of bridge, but without bidding.
interjection
1.
hush! silence! be still!
adjective
2.
hushed; silent; still.
noun
3.
Chiefly Irish. silence:
Hold your whist.
verb (used without object)
4.
British Dialect. to be or become silent.
verb (used with object)
5.
British Dialect. to silence.
noun
1.
a card game for four in which the two sides try to win the balance of the 13 tricks: forerunner of bridge
interjection, adjective, verb
1.
a variant of whisht
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