WHIZ

v. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound. [Written also whizz.] It flew, and whizzing, cut the liquid way. Dryden.

2.
n.

A hissing and humming sound. Like the whiz of my crossbow. Coleridge.