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Whidah Bird
- - Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to the genus Vidua, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called also vida finch, whidah finch, whydah bird, whydah finch, widow bird, and widow finch.
Whinberries
- noun - erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries
Whiskeyfied
- - Drunk with whisky; intoxicated.
Whisky Ring
- - A conspiracy of distillers and government officials during the administration of President Grant to defraud the government of the excise taxes. The frauds were detected in 1875 through the efforts of the Secretary of the Treasury B. H. Bristow, and most of the offenders were convicted.
Whist Drive
- noun - a party of people assembled to play progressive whist
- a progressive whist party
Whistlefish
- - A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.
Whistlewing
- - The American golden-eye.
White Daisy
- noun - tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum
White Friar
- noun - a Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order; mendicant preachers
White Maire
- noun - small New Zealand tree having red pulpy one-seeded fruit