Whist

1. a. Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet.
2. interj. Be silent; be still; hush; silence.
3. n. A certain game at cards; — so called because it requires silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed.
4. v. t. To hush or silence.
5. v. i. To be or become silent or still; to be hushed or mute.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.