'Whisker' definitions:
Definition of 'whisker'
(from WordNet)
noun
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, whisker]
noun
A long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat [syn: whisker, vibrissa, sensory hair]
verb
Furnish with whiskers; "a whiskered jersey" [syn: bewhisker, whisker]
Definition of 'Whisker'
From: GCIDE
- Whisker \Whisk"er\, n. [1913 Webster]
- 1. One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Formerly, the hair of the upper lip; a mustache; -- usually in the plural. [1913 Webster]
- Hoary whiskers and a forky beard. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A hair of the beard. [1913 Webster]
- 5. One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal. [1913 Webster]
- 6. pl. (Naut.) Iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to spread, or guy out, the stays, etc. [1913 Webster]