قاموس اللغة الإنجليزية

Used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!

Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys!

As a relative pronoun

Used substantively with the antecedent suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those [things] which; -- called a compound relative.

Used adjectively, equivalent to the . . . which; the sort or kind of . . . which; rarely, the . . . on, or at, which.

Used adverbially in a sense corresponding to the adjectival use; as, he picked what good fruit he saw.

Whatever; whatsoever; what thing soever; -- used indefinitely.

Used adverbially, in part; partly; somewhat; -- with a following preposition, especially, with, and commonly with repetition.

Something; thing; stuff.

Why? For what purpose? On what account?

A contraction of what-ever; -- used in poetry.

Anything soever which; the thing or things of any kind; being this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or another; anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all particulars that; -- used both substantively and adjectively.

A kind of stand, or piece of furniture, having shelves for books, ornaments, etc.; an etagere.

Whatsoever; whosoever; whatever; anything that.

A contraction of whatsoever; -- used in poetry.

Whatever.

Same as Whall.

See Whaap.

A pustule; a whelk.

A more or less elongated mark raised by a stroke; also, a similar mark made by any cause; a weal; a wale.