whist

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge.
2. (countable, uncountable)A session of playing this card game.

intj

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of whisht. Silence!, quiet!, hush!, shhh!, shush!

   “… for scarcely had they descended one hundred feet, when a low “whist” from the girl, warned them of present danger.”

2. Onomatopoeia for slicing.

   “Well! she laid down her little golden head without fear; and whist! down came the axe, and it was off. So the mother wiped the axe and laughed.”

verb

1. (rare, transitive)To hush or shush; to still.

   “o was the Titaness put downe and whist”

2. (intransitive, rare)To become silent.

   “The fields whist, beasts, and fowls of divers bue”

adj

1. (rare)Silent, hushed.

   “Come unto these yellow sands, / And then take hands: / Courtsied when you have and kiss'd / The wild waves whist, / Foot it featly here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.[…]”