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whiff : 英英辞書
Whiff
(), n.[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.
Shak.
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. (Zol.) The marysole, or sail fluke.

Whiff
v. 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
v. i.To emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff.



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