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whiffing |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Whiff \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 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Whiffing \Whiff"ing\, n. 1. The act of one who or that which whiffs. 2. A mode of fishing with a hand line for pollack, mackerel, and the like
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