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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whisker \Whisk"er\, n.
1. One who or that which whisks, or moves with a quick,
sweeping motion.
2. Formerly, the hair of the upper lip; a mustache; --
usually in the plural.
Hoary whiskers and a forky beard. --Pope.
3. pl That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of
the face, or upon the chin, or upon both as side
whiskers; chin whiskers.
4. A hair of the beard.
5. One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of
the mouth of a cat, or other animal.
6. pl (Naut.) Iron rods extending on either side of the
bowsprit, to spread, or guy out the stays, etc
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
whisker
n : a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most
mammals as e.g. a cat [syn: {vibrissa}, {sensory hair}]
v : furnish with whiskers; "a whiskered jersey" [syn: {bewhisker}]
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