the young of a dog, fox, lion, or any wild beast.

WHELPs, in a ship, the seaman's term for those brackets which are set up on the captain close under the bars; they give the sweep to it, and are so contrived that the cable winding about them may not surge so much as it might otherwise do if the body of the captain were quite round and smooth.

WHEISTONE, a stone so called, because it serves for the whetting of edge tools upon. See MINERALOGY Index.