Definition of "whaten" [whaten]

• What; what kind of.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "I wish I had whaten books ye wanted, Mr. Butler, for they hae haill houses of them here, and they are obliged to set sum out in the street, whilk are sald cheap, doubtless, to get them out of the weather."
• "Derncleugh, left his horses to the care of the blackguard boy, confiding, it is to be supposed, rather in the years and discretion of the cattle, than in those of their keeper, and set off full speed, to see, as he exprest himself, "whaten a sort o 'fun was gaun on.""
• "'Latt the young ozebird aloun, zay I. Makk zuch ado about un, wi' hogs'-puddens, and hock-bits, and lambs'-mate, and whaten bradd indade, and brewers 'ale avore dinner-time, and her not to zit wi' no winder aupen -- draive me mad 'e doo, the ov'ee, zuch a passel of voouls."