whisting

Verb

whist (third-person singular simple present whists, present participle whisting, simple past and past participle whisted)

1. (rare, transitive) To hush or shush; to still.
   • o was the Titaness put downe and whist1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
2. (intransitive, rare) To become silent.
   • The fields whist, beasts, and fowls of divers bue1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Fowrth Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter...

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