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Webster 1913 Edition

Whiff

Whiff

,
Noun.
[OE.
weffe
vapor, whiff, probably of imitative origin; cf. Dan.
vift
a puff, gust, W.
chwiff
a whiff, puff.]
1.
A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke.
But with the
whiff
and wind of his fell sword
The unnerved father falls.
Shakespeare
The skipper, he blew a
whiff
from his pipe,
And a scornful laugh laughed he.
Longfellow.
2.
A glimpse; a hasty view.
[Prov. Eng.]
3.
(Zool.)
The marysole, or sail fluke.

Whiff

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Whiffed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Whiffing
.]
1.
To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
2.
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.

Whiff

,
Verb.
I.
To emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff.

Webster 1828 Edition

Whiff

WHIFF

,
Noun.
1.
A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a puff; as the whiff of a smoker.
And seasons his whiffs with impertinent jokes.
2.
In ichthyology, a species of Pleuronectes or flounder.

WHIFF

,
Verb.
T.
TO puff; to throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs.

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