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  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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