Whĭz1, v. i.
(hwĭz), v. i. [imp. & p. p. WHIZZED; p. pr. & vb. n. WHIZZING.] [Cf. WHEEZE and HISS.] To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air.
It flew, and, whizzing, cut the liquid way. Dryden.
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(hwĭz), v. i. [imp. & p. p. WHIZZED; p. pr. & vb. n. WHIZZING.] [Cf. WHEEZE and HISS.] To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air.
It flew, and, whizzing, cut the liquid way. Dryden.
n. A hissing and humming sound. “Like the whiz of my cross-bow.” Coleridge.