whiff

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A slight, gentle gust of air; a waft: a whiff of cool air.
2. n. A brief, passing odor carried in the air: a whiff of perfume.
3. n. A minute trace: "Humanity is unregenerable and hates the language of conformity, since conformity has a whiff of the inhuman about it” ( Anthony Burgess).
4. n. An inhalation, as of air or smoke: Take a whiff of this pipe.
5. n. Baseball A strikeout.
6. v. To be carried in brief gusts; waft: puffs of smoke whiffing from the chimney.
7. v. Sports To swing at and miss a ball or puck.
8. v. Baseball To strike out. Used of a batter.
9. v. To blow or convey in whiffs.
10. v. To inhale through the nose; sniff: a dog whiffing the air.
11. v. Baseball To strike out (a batter).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A slight blast or gust of air; especially, a puff of air conveying some smell.
2. n. A quick inhalation of air, and especially of smoke; a drawing or drinking; in of smoke; also, a draught or drink, as of wine or liquid.
3. n. A sudden expulsion of air, smoke, or the like from the mouth; a puff.
4. n. A hasty view; a glimpse; a gliff.
5. n. At Oxford and other places on the Thames, a light kind of outrigger boat. It is timber-built throughout, thus differing from a skiff, which is a racing-boat, usually of cedar, and covered with canvas for some distance at the bow and stern. Encyc. Dict.
6. To puff; blow; produce or emit a puff or whiff.
7. To drink.
8. To puff; puff out; exhale; blow: as, to whiff out rings of smoke.
9. To carry as by a slight blast or whiff of wind.
10. To draw in; imbibe; inhale: said of air or smoke, and frequently of liquids also.
11. n. An anacanthine or malacopterygious fish of the family Pleuronectidæ, a kind of flatfish or flounder, the Cynicoglossus microcephalus, found in British waters; the smear-dab, sail-fluke, or marysole.
12. To fish, as for mackerel, with a hand-line. See whiffing, n.

Wiktionary

1. n. A waft; a brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air
2. n. An odour carried briefly through the air
3. n. A short inhalation of breath, especially of smoke from a cigarette or pipe
4. n. figuratively a slight sign of something
5. n. baseball A strike (from the batter’s perspective)
6. n. The megrim, a fish with scientific name Lepidorhombus boscii or Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis
7. v. transitive To waft.
8. v. transitive To sniff.
9. v. intransitive, baseball To strike out.
10. v. slang to attempt to strike and miss, especially being off-balance/vulnerable after missing.
11. adj. colloquial Having a strong or unpleasant odor.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke.
2. n. Prov. Eng. A glimpse; a hasty view.
3. n. (Zoöl.) The marysole, or sail fluke.
4. v. To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
5. v. To carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff or blow away.
6. v. To emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. smoke and exhale strongly
2. v. drive or carry as if by a puff of air
3. v. perceive by inhaling through the nose
4. n. a short light gust of air
5. n. a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike
6. v. strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third
7. v. utter with a puff of air
8. n. a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil