English Dictionary: whimsical | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Whencesoever \Whence`so*ev"er\, adv. & conj. From what place soever; from what cause or source soever. Any idea, whencesoever we have it. --Locke. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Whimsey \Whim"sey\, Whimsy \Whimsy\, n.; pl. {Whimseys}or {Whimsies}. [See {Whim}.] 1. A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit. [bd]The whimsies of poets and painters.[b8] --Ray. Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy. --Swift. Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth. --Bancroft. 2. (Mining) A whim. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Whimsical \Whim"si*cal\, a. [From {Whimsey}.] 1. Full of, or characterized by, whims; actuated by a whim; having peculiar notions; queer; strange; freakish. [bd]A whimsical insult.[b8] --Macaulay. My neighbors call me whimsical. --Addison. 2. Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic. [bd]A whimsical chair.[b8] --Evelyn. Syn: Quaint; capricious; fanciful; fantastic. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Whimsicality \Whim`si*cal"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being whimsical; whimsicalness. | |
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Whimsically \Whim"si*cal*ly\, adv. In a whimsical manner; freakishly. | |
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Whimsicalness \Whim"si*cal*ness\, n. The quality or state of being whimsical; freakishness; whimsical disposition. | |
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Whimsey \Whim"sey\, Whimsy \Whimsy\, n.; pl. {Whimseys}or {Whimsies}. [See {Whim}.] 1. A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit. [bd]The whimsies of poets and painters.[b8] --Ray. Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy. --Swift. Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth. --Bancroft. 2. (Mining) A whim. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Whinchat \Whin"chat`\, n. [So called because it frequents whins.] (Zo[94]l.) A small warbler ({Pratincola rubetra}) common in Europe; -- called also {whinchacker}, {whincheck}, {whin-clocharet}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Whinchat \Whin"chat`\, n. [So called because it frequents whins.] (Zo[94]l.) A small warbler ({Pratincola rubetra}) common in Europe; -- called also {whinchacker}, {whincheck}, {whin-clocharet}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Wine bag}, a wine skin. {Wine biscuit}, a kind of sweet biscuit served with wine. {Wine cask}, a cask for holding wine, or which holds, or has held, wine. {Wine cellar}, a cellar adapted or used for storing wine. {Wine cooler}, a vessel of porous earthenware used to cool wine by the evaporation of water; also, a stand for wine bottles, containing ice. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{On the wing}. (a) Supported by, or flying with, the wings another. {On the wings of the wind}, with the utmost velocity. {Under the wing}, [or] {wings}, {of}, under the care or protection of. {Wing and wing} (Naut.), with sails hauled out on either side; -- said of a schooner, or her sails, when going before the wind with the foresail on one side and the mainsail on the other; also said of a square-rigged vessel which has her studding sails set. Cf. {Goosewinged}. {Wing case} (Zo[94]l.), one of the anterior wings of beetles, and of some other insects, when thickened and used to protect the hind wings; an elytron; -- called also {wing cover}. {Wing covert} (Zo[94]l.), one of the small feathers covering the bases of the wing quills. See {Covert}, n., 2. {Wing gudgeon} (Mach.), an iron gudgeon for the end of a wooden axle, having thin, broad projections to prevent it from turning in the wood. See Illust. of {Gudgeon}. {Wing shell} (Zo[94]l.), wing case of an insect. {Wing stroke}, the stroke or sweep of a wing. {Wing transom} (Naut.), the uppermost transom of the stern; -- called also {main transom}. --J. Knowles. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Wanchese, NC (CDP, FIPS 70920) Location: 35.83747 N, 75.64025 W Population (1990): 1380 (583 housing units) Area: 12.1 sq km (land), 2.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Winchester, AR (city, FIPS 76010) Location: 33.77479 N, 91.47501 W Population (1990): 239 (87 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71677 Winchester, CA (CDP, FIPS 85894) Location: 33.70890 N, 117.08065 W Population (1990): 1689 (608 housing units) Area: 12.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 92596 Winchester, ID (city, FIPS 87850) Location: 46.24105 N, 116.62242 W Population (1990): 262 (142 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83555 Winchester, IL (city, FIPS 82270) Location: 39.62942 N, 90.45656 W Population (1990): 1769 (775 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Winchester, IN (city, FIPS 84752) Location: 40.17191 N, 84.97711 W Population (1990): 5095 (2286 housing units) Area: 6.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 47394 Winchester, KS (city, FIPS 79800) Location: 39.32166 N, 95.26789 W Population (1990): 613 (211 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66097 Winchester, KY (city, FIPS 83676) Location: 37.99729 N, 84.18828 W Population (1990): 15799 (6592 housing units) Area: 14.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 40391 Winchester, MA (CDP, FIPS 80545) Location: 42.45185 N, 71.14692 W Population (1990): 20267 (7559 housing units) Area: 15.6 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 01890 Winchester, MO (city, FIPS 80314) Location: 38.58995 N, 90.52563 W Population (1990): 1678 (608 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Winchester, NH (CDP, FIPS 85460) Location: 42.77620 N, 72.38467 W Population (1990): 1735 (691 housing units) Area: 7.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Winchester, NV (CDP, FIPS 84600) Location: 36.13660 N, 115.12979 W Population (1990): 23365 (12485 housing units) Area: 11.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Winchester, OH (village, FIPS 85876) Location: 38.94264 N, 83.65355 W Population (1990): 978 (436 housing units) Area: 6.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 45697 Winchester, OK (town, FIPS 81575) Location: 35.78599 N, 95.99200 W Population (1990): 301 (126 housing units) Area: 11.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Winchester, TN (city, FIPS 81080) Location: 35.18840 N, 86.10852 W Population (1990): 6305 (2625 housing units) Area: 19.5 sq km (land), 1.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 37398 Winchester, VA (city, FIPS 840) Location: 39.17448 N, 78.17500 W Population (1990): 21947 (9808 housing units) Area: 24.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Winchester, VA (city, FIPS 86720) Location: 39.17448 N, 78.17500 W Population (1990): 21947 (9808 housing units) Area: 24.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 22601 Winchester, WI Zip code(s): 54557 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Winchester Bay, OR Zip code(s): 97467 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Winneshiek County, IA (county, FIPS 191) Location: 43.29097 N, 91.84321 W Population (1990): 20847 (7726 housing units) Area: 1786.2 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Woonsocket, RI (city, FIPS 80780) Location: 41.99988 N, 71.50038 W Population (1990): 43877 (18739 housing units) Area: 20.0 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water) Woonsocket, SD (city, FIPS 72700) Location: 44.05471 N, 98.27374 W Population (1990): 766 (339 housing units) Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57385 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
Winchester n. Informal generic term for sealed-enclosure magnetic-disk drives in which the read-write head planes over the disk surface on an air cushion. There is a legend that the name arose because the original 1973 engineering prototype for what later became the IBM 3340 featured two 30-megabyte volumes; 30-30 became `Winchester' when somebody noticed the similarity to the common term for a famous Winchester rifle (in the latter, the first 30 referred to caliber and the second to the grain weight of the charge). (It is sometimes incorrectly claimed that Winchester was the laboratory in which the technology was developed.) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
winchester {magnetic disk} drives in which the read-write head planes over the disk surface on an air cushion. The name arose because the original 1973 engineering prototype for what later became the {IBM 3340} featured two 30-megabyte volumes; 30--30 became "Winchester" when somebody noticed the similarity to the common term for a famous Winchester rifle (in the latter, the first 30 referred to caliber and the second to the grain weight of the charge). [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Winsock {Windows sockets} |