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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Whiff, v. t. [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.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Whiff·ing n.
 1. The act of one who, or that which, whiffs.
 2. A mode of fishing with a hand line for pollack, mackerel, and the like.
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