Dictionary definition: whisker


Webster's NewWorld Dictionary
01-01-1988

whisk|er (hwis'kr, wis-) n.
1. [pl. ] a)[Archaic] a mustache b)the hair growing on a man's face; esp., the beard on the cheeks
2. a)a hair of a man's beard b)any of the long bristly hairs growing on each side of the upper lip of a cat, rat, etc.; vibrissa
3. a very small, hairlike, single-crystal filament of high ...

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