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Whisker   /wˈɪskər/  /hwˈɪskər/   Listen
Whisker

noun
1.
A very small distance or space.  Synonyms: hair, hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth.  "They lost the election by a whisker"
2.
A long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat.  Synonyms: sensory hair, vibrissa.
verb
1.
Furnish with whiskers.  Synonym: bewhisker.



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"Whisker" Quotes from Famous Books



... standards [Footnote 3] waving far and wide. And now once more to better thoughts inclin'd, The sea-man, mounting, clamour'd in the wind. The soldier told his tales of love and war; [t] The courtier sung—sung to his gay guitar. Round, at Primero, sate a whisker'd band; So Fortune smil'd, careless of sea or land! [u] LEON, MONTALVAN, (serving side by side; Two with one soul—and, as they liv'd, they died) VASCO the brave, thrice found among the slain, ...
— Poems • Samuel Rogers

... face, with its fringe of white whisker, beamed with the joy of a scientist who has made a new and important discovery. He had a long, hooked nose, and was painfully near-sighted, but refused to wear glasses. Just now he sniffed inquiringly at the open bottle of medicine. "Yes," he said, nodding ...
— At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern • Myrtle Reed

... under the stove, and Susan keeps hissing at a big tiger-striped tomcat crouching under the sofa. He turns his head away from her and looks like he never intended to get mixed up with family life. For a stray cat he's sleek and healthy-looking. Every time he moves a whisker, Susan hisses again, warningly. She believes in no visiting rights ...
— It's like this, cat • Emily Neville

... The Whisker continu'd for some time among us after the Expiration of Beards; but this is a Subject which I shall not here enter upon, having discussed it at large in a distinct Treatise, which I keep by me in ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele

... week, at two balls and a party,— For a prince, his demeanour was rather too hearty. You know, we are used to quite different graces, * * * * * The Czar's look, I own, was much brighter and brisker, But then he is sadly deficient in whisker; And wore but a starless blue coat, and in kersey- mere breeches whisk'd round in a waltz with the J * *, Who, lovely as ever, seem'd just as delighted With majesty's presence as those ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. III - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore


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