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(1):

(a.) Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.

(2):

(a.) A interrogative pronoun, used both substantively and adjectively, and in direct and indirect questions, to ask for, or refer to, an individual person or thing among several of a class; as, which man is it? which woman was it? which is the house? he asked which route he should take; which is best, to live or to die? See the Note under What, pron., 1.

(3):

(pron.) A relative pronoun, used esp. in referring to an antecedent noun or clause, but sometimes with reference to what is specified or implied in a sentence, or to a following noun or clause (generally involving a reference, however, to something which has preceded). It is used in all numbers and genders, and was formerly used of persons.

(4):

(pron.) A compound relative or indefinite pronoun, standing for any one which, whichever, that which, those which, the . . . which, and the like; as, take which you will.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Which'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​w/which.html. 1828.
 
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