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▪ I. ˈwhirry, n. ? Obs.
In 7 wherry, whurrie.
[Cf. next.]
a. A rapid or sudden movement.
b. Activity.
1611Cotgr., Bacule, a square, and heauie dore..let fal (as a Portcullis) in a trice, with a whurrie. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. 229 A company of beetle⁓heads, dull-spirited fellowes, that had no wherry in them. 1675Covel in Early Voy. Levant (Hakl. Soc.) 214 At last, with a merry wherry of their musick, they turn round (as the Dervises) a long time.
▪ II. whirry, v. Now Sc.|ˈhwɪrɪ|
Forms: 6 whirrye, -ie, 7 whurry, wherry, 7, 9 Sc. whirry.
[? f. whirr + -y, after hurry.]
1. trans. To carry or drive swiftly; to hurry along. Also fig.
1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 89 Hoyse me hence..too sum oother countrye me whirrye. 1621T. Bedford Sin unto Death 29 The..sea that is..whirryed and tossed with a tempestuous winde. 1660C. Bonde Scut. Reg. 51 As the unruly quadrupedes whirried about the Chariot,..untill they had set the whole world on fire. a1756Halket in W. Walker Bards Bon-Accord (1887) 205 Ill boding comets blaze o'erhead, O whirry whigs awa', man. 1820Scott Monast. Introd. Ep., ‘Some of the quality, that were o' his ain unhappy persuasion, had the corpse whirried away up the water.’
fig.1619Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. v. 21. 548 Giddie and inconstant people, wherried about with euery blast of vaine Doctrine. 1621T. Williamson tr. Goulart's Wise Vieillard 58 Whurried about with intemperate lusts and desires. 1675T. Brooks Gold. Key 4 A Christian is sometimes wherried and whirled away by sin before he is a ware.
2. intr. To move or go rapidly, hurry.
c1630Robin Goodfellow in Roxb. Ball. (1874) II. 82 Through pooles and ponds, I whirry, laughing, ho, ho, ho! 1691Sir T. P. Blount Ess. 103 When once the spoke of the Wheel is uppermost, it soon whurries to the bottom. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xviii, Her and the gudeman will be whirrying through the blue lift on a broom-shank. 1920Blunden Waggoner 24, I whirry through the dark.
▪ III. whirry, a.|ˈhwɜːrɪ|
[f. whirr, whir n. + -y1.]
Characterized by, or of the nature of, a whirr.
1936E. Dark Return to Coolami xiv. 142 There are the locusts beginning... A nice noise, whirry, hot, drowsy. 1982Financial Times 25 Sept. 6/6 Intal suffered from the disadvantage that it could only be taken by the patient by means of a rather complex, whirry machine called the ‘Spinhaler’.
▪ IV. whirry
obs. form of quarry n.1 |