whisk'd

Verb

whisk (third-person singular simple present whisks, present participle whisking, simple past and past participle whisked)

1. (transitive) To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
   • Vernon whisked the sawdust from his workbench.
2. (transitive) In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
   • The chef prepared to whisk the egg whites for the angel's food cake.
3. (transitive) To move something rapidly and with no warning.
   • July 3, 1769, Horace Walpole, letter to the Earl of Strafford
     I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another.
4. (intransitive) To move lightly and nimbly.
   • The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
5. (transitive) To move whiskers.

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