{ } n. & interj. Words imitative of the notes of the owl. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy tu-whits are lulled, I wot,
Thy tu-whoos of yesternight. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Hubbub. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To insult with shouts; to chase with derision. [ 1913 Webster ]

And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be
Whooped out of Rome. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. [ See Hoopoe. ] (Zool.) The hoopoe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Whooped p. pr. & vb. n. Whooping. ] [ OE. houpen. See Hoop, v. i. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To utter a whoop, or loud cry, as eagerness, enthusiasm, or enjoyment; to cry out; to shout; to halloo; to utter a war whoop; to hoot, as an owl. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each whooping with a merry shout. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

When naught was heard but now and then the howl
Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl. W. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A shout of pursuit or of war; a very of eagerness, enthusiasm, enjoyment, vengeance, terror, or the like; an halloo; a hoot, or cry, as of an owl. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fox, crossing the road, drew off a considerable detachment, who clapped spurs to their horses, and pursued him with whoops and halloos. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

The whoop of the crane. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, whooops. [ 1913 Webster ]

Woopher swan. (Zool.) See the Note under Swan. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Whoop, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whooping cough (Med.), a violent, convulsive cough, returning at longer or shorter intervals, and consisting of several expirations, followed by a sonorous inspiration, or whoop; chin cough; hooping cough. Dunglison. --
Whooping crane (Zool.), a North American crane (Crus Americana) noted for the loud, whooplike note which it utters. --
Whooping swan (Zool.), the whooper swan. See the Note under Swan. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Hoot. ] To hoot. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower. [ 1913 Webster ]

Johnson clung to her memory during a widowhood of more than thirty years. Leslie Stephen. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Estate settled on a widow. [ Obs. ] “I 'll assure her of her widowhood . . . in all my lands.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]