whiss

English

Verb

whiss (third-person singular simple present whisses, present participle whissing, simple past and past participle whissed)

1. Obsolete form of whiz.
   • 1774, Paulin Huggett Pearce, The Warrior's Swimming Book, and Ladies' Guide, page 13:

     Their fatal bullets whissed, the green sward dyed,
     The horses reared and plunged in maddening pain, br> And stumbling, fell upon the crimson plain.

   • 1889, The Tablet, volume 74, page 996:

     […] more shots whissed past, going over the heads of himself and his companions […]