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whisker

(wĭs′kər, hwĭs′-)
n.
1.
a. whiskers The hair on a man's cheeks and chin.
b. A single hair of a beard or mustache.
2. One of the long stiff tactile bristles or hairs that grow near the mouth and elsewhere on the head of most mammals; a vibrissa.

whisk′ered, whisk′er·y adj.
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A component of a box plot representing data, which corresponds to a specified distance above or below a median; depending on the population being analysed, data points beyond whiskers are statistical outliers
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Red Whisker would have got the guitar-case out of the carriage, but Dora told him nobody knew where it was, but I.
I was happier than ever when the party broke up, and the other people, defeated Red Whisker and all, went their several ways, and we went ours through the still evening and the dying light, with sweet scents rising up around us.
His presence was a chill, and Whiskers and Fatty instinctively drew together for protection against the unguessed threat of him.
"Huh!" sneered the terrible one, with such dreadfulness of menace as to cause Whiskers and Fatty involuntarily to close their hands down on their cave-man's weapons.
"Will not the string be very indigestible, Anna Maria?" inquired Samuel Whiskers.
"I do not think"--said Samuel Whiskers, pausing to take a look at Tom Kitten--"I do NOT think it will be a good pudding.
"That's true enough," the gentleman with the gray whiskers chimed in, positively laughing with satisfaction.
Villefort, pale and agitated, ran to the window, put aside the curtain, and saw him pass, cool and collected, by two or three ill-looking men at the corner of the street, who were there, perhaps, to arrest a man with black whiskers, and a blue frock-coat, and hat with broad brim.
This soldier carried a long green gun over his shoulder and had lovely green whiskers that fell quite to his knees.
The Soldier with the Green Whiskers looked at Jack with much care and curiosity.
The next morning the soldier with the green whiskers led the Lion to the great Throne Room and bade him enter the presence of Oz.
His first thought was that Oz had by accident caught on fire and was burning up; but when he tried to go nearer, the heat was so intense that it singed his whiskers, and he crept back tremblingly to a spot nearer the door.
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