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▪ I. † whiss, v. Obs.
Also 5 quysse, 6 whisse, whyss(e, wiss(e, Sc. quheiss.
[Echoic. Cf. Icel. hvissa to whizz.]
1. intr. To make a sibilant sound of some kind; to whistle, hiss, whizz, or wheeze; trans. to whistle to. Hence † ˈwhissing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1400Parlt. 3 Ages 234 He [sc. falconer] quysses thaym [sc. hawks] and quotes thaym, quyppeys full lowde. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 385 The whyssinge of a burninge forge. 1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Auster, Sibilus Austri, the whissynge of the winde. 1583B. Melbancke Philotimus T iij b, Like the sea which sodenlye with whissing noyse dooth moue, when with a little blast of winde it is but toucht. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. i. 24 (Qo. 1) Whissing lungs. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, ccliii, Their fled Troops, met whissing in the Bound, Gave their owne Terror, in a Treble Sound. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes ii. iv. 49 Such a Nose is worth a double tost in a pot of Ale, and will make it whisse as well as a hot steele. 1847Halliwell, Whiss, to whistle.
2. trans. ? To strike with something pliant, to flog: cf. quot. c 1590 in n. below.
c1540J. Heywood Wit & Folly (Percy Soc.) 2 Some whysse hym, some whype hym.
Hence † whiss n., a blow with something pliant, a lash.
c1590J. Stewart Poems (S.T.S.) II. 235 Tak thair ane quheiss ȝit vith my skoullon clout.
▪ II. whiss, whisshe
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