whine

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To utter a plaintive, high-pitched, protracted sound, as in pain, fear, supplication, or complaint.
2. v. To complain or protest in a childish fashion.
3. v. To produce a sustained noise of relatively high pitch: jet engines whining.
4. v. To utter with a whine.
5. n. The act of whining.
6. n. A whining sound.
7. n. A complaint uttered in a plaintive tone.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To utter a plaintive protracted sound expressive of distress or complaint; moan as a dog, or in a childish fashion.
2. To complain in a puerile, feeble, or undignified way; bemoan one's self weakly.
3. To utter in a plaintive, querulous, drawling manner: usually with out.
4. n. A drawling, plaintive utterance or tone, as the whinny of a dog; also, the nasal puerile tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.
5. n. In hunting, the noise made by an otter at rutting-time.

Wiktionary

1. n. a long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound
2. n. a complaint or criticism
3. v. intransitive To utter a high-pitched cry.
4. v. intransitive To make a sound resembling such a cry.
5. v. intransitive To complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine.
6. v. intransitive To move with a whining sound.
7. v. transitive To utter with the sound of a whine.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely.
2. v. To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way.
3. n. A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. complain whiningly
2. v. move with a whining sound
3. n. a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way
4. v. make a high-pitched, screeching noise
5. v. talk in a tearful manner