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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Whisk

Whisk, n.

noun

(hwĭsk), n. [Icel. visk; Dan. visk, hiask, jask, Sw. viska, D. wisch, wische, O. H. Ger. wisc, N. H. Ger. wisch.] 1. The act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of something light. This first sad whisk Takes off thy dukedom; thou art but an earl. Beau. & Fl.

  1. A small bunch of grass, straw, hair, or the like, used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom.
  2. A small culinary instrument for whisking or beating certain articles, as eggs. Boyle.
  3. Part of a woman's dress; a kind of tippet. “My wife in her new lace whisk, which indeed is very noble.” Pepys.
  4. A game at cards; whist. [Obs.] Taylor, 1630.
  5. An impertinent fellow. [Eng.] Halliwell.
  6. A plane used by coopers for evening the chimes of barrels.

Whisk, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. WHISKED (hwĭskt); p. pr. & vb. n. WHISKING.] [Dan. viske, Sw. viska, L. Ger. wisken, O. H. Ger. wiskjan, wischen, N. H. Ger. wischen, D. wischen.]

  1. To sweep, brush, or agitate with a light, rapid motion, as the dust from a table, or the white of eggs into a froth.
  2. To move with a quick, sweeping motion. “He that walks in gray, whisking his riding-rod.” Beau. & Fl. “There whisks his brush.” Cooper.

I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another. H. Walpole.

Whisk, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To move nimbly and with velocity.