n. A slight blast or gust of air; especially, a puff of air conveying some smell.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.n. A sudden expulsion of air, smoke, or the like from the mouth; a puff.n. A hasty view; a glimpse; a gliff.n. At Oxford and other places on the Thames, a light kind of outrigger boat.To puff; blow; produce or emit a puff or whiff.To drink.To puff; puff out; exhale; blow: as, to whiff out rings of smoke.To carry as by a slight blast or whiff of wind.To draw in; imbibe; inhale: said of air or smoke, and frequently of liquids also.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.To fish, as for mackerel, with a hand-line. See whiffing, n.