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What
·noun Something; thing; stuff. II. What (·pron, ·adj, ·adv) As a relative pronoun. III. What (inte...

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what's what
'To know what's what,' is to know the nature of things, or as we classically express it, 'to be up t...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
what not
In New York a piece of furniture usually placed in a parlor, consisting of several shelves, upon whi...

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what cheer, ho?
Equivalent among seamen to, How fare ye? ...

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what ship is that?
A question often put when a jaw-breaking word has been intrusively uttered by savants. ...

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what water have you?
The question to the man sounding, as to the depth of water which the lead-line gives. ...

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