Whiff — Defs

01 n. A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke.

1.
A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke.
“But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword The unnerved father falls.” — Shak.

“The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he.” — Longfellow.
2.
A glimpse; a hasty view.[Prov. Eng.]
3.
The marysole, or sail fluke.(Zool.)

02 v. t. To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.

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.

03 v. i. To emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff.