Whiff /(?)/

1. A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke.

   But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword The unnerved father falls.

   The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he.

2. A glimpse; a hasty view. [Prov. Eng.]
3. The marysole, or sail fluke. (Zool.)

imp. & p. p. Whiffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Whiffing

1. To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
2. To carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff or blow away.

   Old Empedocles, . . . who, when he leaped into Etna, having a dry, sear body, and light, the smoke took him, and whiffed him up into the moon.

1. To emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff.