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Card game for four, predecessor of bridge, in which the partners try to win a majority of the 13 tricks (the highest card played being the winner of the trick).

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bridge Lamb, Charles Lenz, Sidney playing cards Work, Milton C			Sailors warned Hugh Miller against whistling because of their correlative belief that it could raise a wind--"Whisht, whisht, boy, we have more than wind enough already" (59)--but it is the whirlwind in particular that has some notable attendant folk beliefs invoked to evade its danger. Perilous shores: the unfathomable supernaturalism of water in ... by Harris, Jason Marc / Mythlore Among the leading pointers and hunter chasers he owned and trained were Under Way, Fearless Fred, Any Crack, Ah Whisht and No Other Way. Pat PP Hogan, former top amateur rider and agent, dies by The Racing Post (London, England) Punchestown regulars from the '80s will associate him with some of the best horses that PP sent out towards the end of his career - Under Way, Ah Whisht and Howyanow - and though he later took a short break from riding, he returned to it better than ever. A week when absent friend dims the spectacle by Walsh, Ted / The Racing Post (London, England)			wheezing Whelan, Bill whelk When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd Whernside Wherry, Kenneth Whettham, Graham whey Whig Party whimbrel whinchat whip snake whiplash injury Whippany whippet Whippet tank Whipple, Fred Lawrence Whipple, George Hoyt Whipple, Henry Benjamin Whipple, Squire whippoorwill whirligig beetle whirling disease Whirlpool Galaxy whirlwind whisht whiskey Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area Whisky Insurrection whist whistle whistle-blower whistle-blowing Whistler Whistler, George Whistler, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Rex Whit Sunday Whitaker, Forest Steven Whitaker, John Whitaker, Joseph Whitaker, Thomas Kenneth Whitbread, Fatima Whitbread, Samuel Whitbroke, William Whitburn Whitby Whitby, Synod of Whitchurch Whitchurch-Stouffville Whitcomb, Richard			whirlwind Whirlwind (disambiguation) Whirlwind (disambiguation) Whirlwind (disambiguation) Whirlwind Web Solutions Whirlwinds Whirlwinds Whirlwinds Whirlwinds whirly Whirly-Girls whirlybird whirlybird whirlybird Whirlybirds whirr whirred whirring whirrs Whirry whirs WHIRSP Whirtle WHIS WHISAH WHISC WHISCA WHISD whish whish whisht whisk whisk whisk whisk around whisk away whisk away whisk broom whisk broom whisk broom whisk broom whisk by whisk fern Whisk ferns whisk off whisk off whisk up Whiskas Liberation Front whiskbroom whisked whisked whisked whisker whisker whisker whisker Whisker (mammals) Whisker (mammals) Whisker (metallurgy) Whisker Crystals whisker jack

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