Crossword clues for whiskers
Wiktionary
n. (plural of whisker English)
WordNet
n. the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face [syn: beard, face fungus]
Wikipedia
Whiskers or vibrissae (; singular: vibrissa; ) are a type of mammalian hair that are typically characterised, anatomically, by their large size, large and well-innervated hair follicle and by having an identifiable representation in the somatosensory cortex of the brain.
They are specialised for tactile sensing (other types of hair operate as more crude tactile sensors). Vibrissae grow in various places on most mammals, including all primates except humans.
In medicine, the term vibrissae also refers to the thick hairs found inside human nostrils.
Usage examples of "whiskers".
Altogether overgrown as he was with the rankest beard, whiskers and locks, ten barbers could not have made a job of him.
Majesty then dismissed Jellia Jamb and the Soldier with the Green Whiskers, and when they were gone he took his new friend by the arm and led him into the courtyard to play a game of quoits.
Stevens turned with some feeling of annoyance, if not misgiving, and met the arch, smiling, and very complacent visage of a tall, slender young gentleman in black bushy whiskers and a green coat, who seized him by the hand and shook it heartily, while a chuckling half-suppressed laughter gurgling in his throat, for a moment, forbade the attempt to speak.
This soldier carried a long green gun over his shoulder and had lovely green whiskers that fell quite to his knees.
Soldier with the Green Whiskers looked at Jack with much care and curiosity.
Soldier with the Green Whiskers led them through the inner gate and they at once found themselves in the main street of the magnificent Emerald City.
So Jack dismounted, with much difficulty, and a servant led the Saw-Horse around to the rear while the Soldier with the Green Whiskers escorted the Pumpkinhead into the palace, by the front entrance.
Scarecrow commanded the Soldier with the Green Whiskers to search among his people until he found one who understood the language of the Gillikins as well as the language of the Emerald City, and to bring that person to him at once.
When the Wonderful Wizard reigned the Soldier with the Green Whiskers was a very good Royal Army, for people feared the Wizard.
Soldier with the Green Whiskers, and the next minute was sorry he had done so.
The creature, as it spoke, wiggled its chin whiskers in a very comical manner.
Brannhard parted his gray-brown whiskers carefully as he prepared to answer the question from the Clerk of the Colonial Courts.
Rainsford wanted to take a handful of his own whiskers in each fist and pull them out.
Its fur was matted and its whiskers sparse, one eye gone, its tail shredded.
So I put him in the body of the costume, got a little wool hat and pinned ears to it, and drew whiskers on his face.