Whimper, or WHINDLE.  A low cry.

To whine.  To complain.

WHINYARD.  A sword.

To whip the cock.  A piece of sport practised at wakes,
  horse-races, and fairs in Leicestershire:  a cock being tied
  or fastened into a hat or basket, half a dozen carters
  blindfolded, and armed with their cart whips, are placed
  round it, who, after being turned thrice about, begin to
  whip the cock, which if any one strikes so as to make it
  cry out, it becomes his property; the joke is, that instead
  of whipping the cock they flog each other heartily.

Whip jacks.  The tenth order of the canting crew, rogues
  who having learned a few sea terms, beg with counterfeit
  passes, pretending to be sailors shipwrecked on the
  neighbouring coast, and on their way to the port from whence
  they sailed.

To whip off.  To run away, to drink off greedily, to
  snatch.  He whipped away from home, went to the alehouse,
  where he whipped off a full tankard, and coming
  back whipped off a fellow’s hat from his head.

Whip-belly vengeance, or pinch-gut vengeance, of
  which he that gets the most has the worst share.  Weak
  or sour beer.

Whipper-snapper.  A diminutive fellow.

WHIPSHIRE.  Yorkshire.

WHIPSTER.  A sharp or subtle fellow.

Whipt syllabub.  A flimsy, frothy discourse or treatise,
  without solidity.

WHIRLYGIGS.  Testicles.

Whisker.  A great lie.

Whisker splitter.  A man of intrigue.

WHISKIN.  A shallow brown drinking bowl.

Whisky.  A malt spirit much drank in Ireland and Scotland;
  also a one-horse chaise.  See Tim whisky.

Whistle.  The throat.  To wet one’s whistle; to drink.

Whistling shop.  Rooms in the King’s Bench and Fleet
  prison where drams are privately sold.

Whit. [i. e.  Whittington’s.] Newgate.  Cant.—­Five rum-padders
  are rubbed in the darkmans out of the whit, and
  are piked into the deuseaville; five highwaymen broke out
  of Newgate in the night, and are gone into the country.

White ribbin.  Gin.

White feather.  He has a white feather; he is a coward;
  an allusion to a game cock, where having a white leather
  is a proof he is not of the true game breed.

White-LIVERED. Cowardly, malicious.

White lie.  A harmless lie, one not told with a malicious
  intent, a lie told to reconcile people at variance.

White serjeant.  A man fetched from the tavern or ale-house
  by his wife, is said to be arrested by the white serjeant.