[f. WHINE v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb WHINE; the uttering of a low somewhat shrill cry or sound, or of a complaint in a low querulous tone.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 524/2. Whynynge, ululatus.
1508. Dunbar, Test. A. Kennedy, 65. My fenȝeing, and my fals wynyng, Relinquo falsis fratribus.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 14. A bodye … maketh a great whynyng, if he haue had any losse.
1605. Shaks., Lear, II. ii. 25. One whom I will beate into clamor[ou]s whining.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 138. The louder and shriller voice of a Dogge, is called barking, the lower and stiller, is called whining or fawning.
1618. Fletcher, Loyal Subj., I. iii. Here will be trim piping anon and whining, Like so many Pigs in a storm.
1626. Donne, Serm., John xi. 21 (1640), 820. For the ratling of a Coach, for the whining of a doore.
a. 1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. xiii. 107. The … wheening of Whelps.
1765. Goldsm., Ess., Eng. Clery. I am not for whining at the depravity of the times.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xlii. (1856), 386. A whining as of young puppies.
1859. Jephson, Brittany, vii. 86. The unmanly whining of disappointed vanity or morbid sentiment.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 908. The voice is enfeebled to whinings and fretful pulings.
b. attrib. Whining cross = WEEPING cross.
1602. Breton, Wonders Worth Hearing, Wks. (Grosart), II. 12/1. These yong men … will … leaue vs to make our prayers at whining crosse.
