Associations to the word «Whist»

Wiktionary

WHIST, noun. Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge.
WHIST, noun. Sessions of playing the card game.
WHIST, adjective. (rare) Silent.
WHIST, verb. (transitive) (rare) To hush or silence; to still.
WHIST, verb. (intransitive) (rare) To become silent.
WHIST, interjection. Alternative spelling of whisht Silence! Quiet! Hush! Shhh!

Dictionary definition

WHIST, noun. A card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope