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Whiskered

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whisk·er  (hwskr, ws-)
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.
3. Informal A narrow margin; a hairsbreadth: The candidate lost the election by a whisker.
4. Nautical One of two spars or booms projecting from the side of a bowsprit for spreading the jib or flying-jib guys.
5. Chemistry An extremely fine filamentary crystal with extraordinary shear strength and unusual electrical or surface properties.
[Middle English wisker, anything that wisks, from wisken, to whisk; see whisk.]
whiskered, whisker·y adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.Whiskeredwhiskered - having hair on the cheeks and chin
barbate, bearded, bewhiskered, whiskery
unshaved, unshaven - not shaved


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