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ight 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.

Formed into whiskers; furnished with whiskers; having or wearing whiskers. Our forefathers, a grave, whiskered race. Cowper.

it were a very dangerous matter if a man in any point should be found wiser than his forefathers were. Robynson (More's Utopia).

love thy neighbor as thyself. Gal. v. 14. She said; but at the happy word "he lives," My father stooped, re- fathered, o'er my wound. Tennyson. There is only one other point on which I offer a word of remark. Dickens. By word of mouth, orally; by actual speaking. Boyle. -- Compound word. See under Compound, a. -- Go…

To influence by acting upon; to prevail upon; to manage; to lead. "Work your royal father to his ruin." Philips.

rld, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 1 John ii. 15, 16.

itle of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station. My father desires your worships' company. Shak.

The quality or state of being zigzag; crookedness. [R.] The . . . zigzaggery of my father's approaches. Sterne.