Crossword-Solution: WHISKER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Whisker | n. | One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion. |
| Whisker | n. | Formerly, the hair of the upper lip; a mustache; -- usually in the plural. |
| Whisker | n. | That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, or upon the chin, or upon both; as, side whiskers; chin whiskers. |
| Whisker | n. | A hair of the beard. |
| Whisker | n. | One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal. |
| Whisker | n. | Iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to spread, or guy out, the stays, etc. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “WHISKER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Missed by a ___." | 1 answer |
| One of many on a cat's face | 1 answer |
| Stiff cat hair | 1 answer |
| Hair of the dog | 2 answers |
| Small margin | 2 answers |
| Vibrissa | 3 answers |
| Tiny margin | 3 answers |
| Narrow margin of victory | 4 answers |
| Cat feature | 4 answers |
| Narrow margin | 7 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EEZMAC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with WHISKER (5)
Leavenworth was a tall, expansive, bland gentleman, with a carefully brushed whisker and a spacious, fair, well-favored face, which seemed, somehow, to have more room in it than was occupied by a smile of superior benevolence, so that (with his smooth, white forehead) it bore a certain resemblance to a large parlor with a very florid carpet, but no pictures on the walls.
Eventually they saw a very placid and prosperous man in his shirt sleeves, with a face as round as the recently sunken moon, and rays of red whisker around the low arc of it, who was leaning on a post above the sluggish tide.
Bright curly hair; bright sparkling blue-gray eyes; a boy’s blush and manner; neither whisker nor moustache, unless a little light-brown fur on his upper lip deserved the latter title: this composed the London professional man, the prospect of whose advent had so troubled Elfride.
Stir a whisker, Lungri, and I ram the Red Flower down thy gullet!” He beat Shere Khan over the head with the branch, and the tiger whimpered and whined in an agony of fear.
Westmacott?" "Or give up me." "Oh, dear dad, how can you say anything so cruel?" cried Ida, burrowing her towsy golden hair into her father's shirt front, while Clara pressed her cheek against his whisker.
Quotes with WHISKER (3)
Surely my lord will not hide his beautiful white legs!" exclaimed Infadoos regretfully. But Good persisted, and once only did the Kukuana people get the chance of seeing his beautiful legs again. Good is a very modest man. Henceforward they had to satisfy their aesthetic longings with his one whisker, his transparent eye, and his movable teeth.
We were greeted by the minister whose inclusive, non-judgemental smile was no more than a whisker away from a smirk. Have I made it clear? I don't like belief systems and even less like those that peddle self-righteousness. I have no doubt the minister was a sincere man, but I am not as impressed by the idea of sincerity as the sincere seem to be.
The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious. Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing …
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1953–2024).