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sion 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.

A little whiff or puff.

The act of one who, or that which, whiffs.

opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle. A person of whiffing and unsteady turn of mind can not keep close to a point of controversy. I. Watts.

One who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler. Every whiffler in a laced coat who frequents the chocolate house shall talk of the constitution. Swift.

Same as Whippletree.

A British fish; the whiff.

pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy.

n embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree. Knight.

In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.

A large British fluke, or flounder (Rhombus megastoma); -- called also carter, and whiff. marchpane.

sion of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff. " To every puff of wind a slave." Flatman.

on the ground. -- Roller bolt, the bar in a carriage to which the traces are attached; a whiffletree. [Eng.] -- Roller gin, a cotton gin inn which rolls are used for separating the seeds from the fiber. -- Roller mill. See under Mill. -- Roller skate, a skate which has small wheels in the place of the metallic runne…

The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.

The bar to which the traces are attached; a roller bolt; a whiffletree.

Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat. No noisome whiffs or sweaty streams. Swift.

A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.

The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened; the whiffletree.

two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.

y made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.