Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To start, shift and turn; to change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle and unsteady.
2. A person of a whiffing and unsteady turn of mind, cannot keep close to a point of controversy.
2. To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
2. To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
1. One who whiffles or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses sifts and evasions in argument.
3. A young man who goes before a company in London on occasions of public solemnity.
1. One who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler.
3. An officer who went before procession to clear the way by blowing a horn, or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at the head of a procession; a harbinger.
4. The golden-eye.
Same as Whippletree.
Wind Roget’s Thesaurus §349
N. n, wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation, eluvium, air, breath, breath of air, puff, whiff, zephyr, blow, breeze, drift, aura, stream, current, jet stream, undercurrent, gust, blast, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon, simoon, simoom, harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter, capful of wind, fresh breeze, stiff breeze, keen blast, blizzard, barber, candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther, windiness, ventosity|, rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather, dirty sky, mare's tail, thick squall, black squall, white squall, anemography, aerodynamics, wind gauge, weathercock, vane, weather-vane, wind sock, anemometer, anemoscope, sufflation, insufflation, perflation, inflation, afflation, blowing, fanning, ventilation, sneezing, errhine, sternutative, sternutatory, sternutation, hiccup, hiccough, catching of the breath, eolus, boreas, zephyr, cave of eolus, air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punkah, branchiae, gills, flabellum, vertilabrum, whiffle ball
V. blow, waft, blow hard, blow great guns, blow a hurricane, wuther, stream, issue, respire, breathe, puff, whiff, whiffle, gasp, wheeze, snuff, snuffle, sniff, sniffle, sneeze, cough, fan, ventilate, inflate, perflate|, blow up
Adj. blowing, windy, flatulent, breezy, gusty, squally, stormy, tempestuous, blustering, boisterous, pulmonic, pulmonary
Phr. "lull'd by soft zephyrs", "the storm is up and all is on the hazard", "the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air", "while mocking winds are piping loud", "winged with red lightning and tempestuous rage"
No Bible verses found for "whiffle".