Crossword clues for whisker
whisker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whisker \Whisk"er\, n.
One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.
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Formerly, the hair of the upper lip; a mustache; -- usually in the plural.
Hoary whiskers and a forky beard.
--Pope. 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.
A hair of the beard.
One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.
pl. (Naut.) Iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to spread, or guy out, the stays, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"hair of a man's face" (usually plural), c.1600, originally a playful formation, from Middle English wisker "anything that whisks or sweeps" (early 15c.), agent noun from whisk (v.). In reference to animal lip hair, recorded from 1670s. Related: Whiskered; whiskers.
Wiktionary
n. 1 That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, usually of the male, or upon the chin, or upon both. 2 A hair of the beard. 3 One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal. 4 (context colloquial English) The (very small) distance between two things
WordNet
v. furnish with whiskers; "a whiskered jersey" [syn: bewhisker]
n. a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker" [syn: hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, hair]
a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat [syn: vibrissa, sensory hair]
Wikipedia
A whisker is a type of mammalian hair.
Whisker may also refer to:
Metal whiskering is a phenomenon which occurs in electrical devices. Tin whiskers were noticed and documented in the vacuum tube era of electronics early in the 20th century, in equipment which used pure, or almost pure, tin solder in their production. It was noticed that small metal hairs or tendrils grew between metal solder pads causing short circuits. Metal whiskers form in the presence of compressive stress. Zinc, cadmium, and even lead whiskers have been documented. Many techniques are used to mitigate the problem including changes to the annealing process (heating and cooling), addition of elements like copper and nickel, and the inclusion of conformal coatings. Traditionally, lead is added to slow down whisker growth.
Following the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS), the European Union banned the use of lead in most consumer electronic products in the early 21st century due to health problems associated with lead and the “high-tech trash” problem, leading to a re-focusing on the issue.
Whisker (1812 – 11 March 1832) was a Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1815 Epsom Derby and was a full-brother of the 1810 winner Whalebone. Whisker raced until he was a six-year-old, but did not race in 1817. Whisker was retired to stud in 1819, where he became a successful and influential sire. The offspring of Whisker and Whalebone continued the sire-line of Eclipse into the 20th century.
Usage examples of "whisker".
OLIVER DORMAN, of the armed merchant barque Olive Branch, of Arundel, ten guns and twenty-five men, stared calculatingly upward, quadrant in hand, his grey fringe of chin whisker seeming to point accusingly at the towering spread of canvas that half filled itself in the faint, hot air currents of the doldrums, only to go slack once more, as though every sail, from the vast courses to the small and distant royals, had sickened beneath the violent glare of the August sun.
A gray brindled tomcat perched on the back of the seat and regarded him with a superior smirk, whiskers quivering.
I carried it into the bathroom, took out a razor and a tube of brushless shaving cream, and hoped the blade would still cut whiskers.
She never flinched, even when 1,500 pounds of horseflesh slid to a stop with whiskers tickling her hand.
Whiskers, with practicing my marlinspike skills until I could tie knots at night, down in the bilge, blindfolded, with my hands behind my back.
It passed only a few feet in front of Ryan, head held back, little eyes twinkling like polished buttons, whiskers perkily aloft, paws twitching up spray.
With false whiskers on, it would serve up cold as a quatrain, doubling its producing value.
Altogether overgrown as he was with the rankest beard, whiskers and locks, ten barbers could not have made a job of him.
As the stage crashed through the mob I reched down and got Joshua by the neck and pulled him out from under about fifteen men which was beating him to death with their gun butts and pulling out his whiskers, and I slung him up on top of the other luggage.
Jest as I reched the door he come weaving out, muttering in his whiskers and waving his six-shooter.
As the stage crashed through the mob I reched down and got Joshua by the neck and pulled him out from under about fifteen men which was beating him to death with their gun butts and pulling out his whiskers by the handfulls and I slung him up on top of the other luggage.
Smash emitted a battle bellow that tore their whiskers back and clogged their pincers with debris, then began stomping and pounding.
The attackers surged forward,only a whisker away from their assault on the fifth and final wall.
Along his upper lip, he had a narrow, neatly coifed swarth of whisker that extended out into waxed, sharply angled-up tips.
There lay his trombone, gleaming like a horn of gold, still sporting that wisp of whisker at the nethermost curve of its slide.