Dictionary entry

What (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

What, interrog. adv. Why? For what purpose? On what account?

What should I tell the answer of the knight. Chaucer.

But what do I stand reckoning upon advantages and gains lost by the misrule and turbulency of the prelates? What do I pick up so thriftily their scatterings and diminishings of the meaner subject? Milton.