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whiff

whiff is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

  1. 1.A glimpse; a hasty view. [Prov. Eng.]
  2. 2.(Zoöl.) The marysole, or sail fluke.
  3. 3.To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
  4. 4.To carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff or blow away. Old Empedocles, . . . who, when he leaped into Etna, having a dry, sear body, and light, the smoke took him, and whiffed him up into the moon. B. Jonson.
  5. 5.To emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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