Whereupon
(Where`up*on") adv. Upon which; in consequence of which; after which.
The townsmen mutinied and sent to Essex; whereupon he came thither.
Clarendon. Wherever
(Wher*ev"er) adv. At or in whatever place; wheresoever.
He can not but love virtue wherever it is.
Atterbury. Wherewith
(Where*with") adv.
1. With which; — used relatively.
The love wherewith thou hast loved me.
John xvii. 26. 2. With what; — used interrogatively.
Wherewith shall I save Israel?
Judg. vi. 15. Wherewith
(Where*with"), n. The necessary means or instrument.
So shall I have wherewith to answer him.
Ps. cxix. 42.
The wherewith to meet excessive loss by radiation.
H. Spencer. Wherewithal
(Where`with*al") adv. & n. Wherewith. "Wherewithal shall we be clothed?" Matt. vi. 31.
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?
Ps. cxix. 9.
[The builders of Babel], still with vain design,
New Babels, had they wherewithal, would build.
Milton. Wherret
(Wher"ret) v. t. [From Whir.]
1. To hurry; to trouble; to tease. [Obs.] Bickerstaff.
2. To box (one) on the ear; to strike or box (the ear); as, to wherret a child. [Obs.]
Wherret
(Wher"ret), n. A box on the ear. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
Wherry
(Wher"ry) n.; pl. Wherries [Cf. Icel. hverfr shifty, crank, hverfa to turn, E. whirl, wharf.]
(Naut.) (a) A passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind of light, half-decked vessel used in
fishing. [Eng.] (b) A long, narrow, light boat, sharp at both ends, for fast rowing or sailing; esp., a racing
boat rowed by one person with sculls.
Wherry
(Wher"ry), n. [Cf. W. chwerw bitter.] A liquor made from the pulp of crab apples after the
verjuice is expressed; — sometimes called crab wherry. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Wherso
(Wher"so) adv. Wheresoever. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Whet
(Whet) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Whetted; p. pr. & vb. n. Whetting.] [AS. hwettan; akin to D. wetten,
G. wetzen, OHG. wezzen, Icel. hvetja, Sw. vättja, and AS. hwæt vigorous, brave, OS. hwat, OHG.
waz, was, sharp, Icel. hvatr, bold, active, Sw. hvass sharp, Dan. hvas, Goth. hwassaba sharply,
and probably to Skr. cud to impel, urge on.]
