Whisper
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A low, sibilant sound.
(2): ( n.) Something communicated in secret or by whispering; a suggestion or insinuation.
(3): ( n.) A cautious or timorous speech.
(4): ( v. t.) To prompt secretly or cautiously; to inform privately.
(5): ( v. t.) To address in a whisper, or low voice.
(6): ( n.) To speak with suspicion, or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting.
(7): ( n.) To make a low, sibilant sound or noise.
(8): ( v. i.) To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound. See Whisper, n.
(9): ( v. t.) To utter in a low and nonvocal tone; to say under the breath; hence, to mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper.
(10): ( n.) A low, soft, sibilant voice or utterance, which can be heard only by those near at hand; voice or utterance that employs only breath sound without tone, friction against the edges of the vocal cords and arytenoid cartilages taking the place of the vibration of the cords that produces tone; sometimes, in a limited sense, the sound produced by such friction as distinguished from breath sound made by friction against parts of the mouth. See Voice, n., 2, and Guide to Pronunciation, // 5, 153, 154.
King James Dictionary [2]
Whisper, L. The word seems by its sound to be an onomatopy, as it expresses a sibilant sound or breathing.
1. To speak with a low hissing or sibilant voice. It is manners to whisper in company.
The hollow whispring breeze--
2. To speak with suspicion or timorous caution. 3. To plot secretly to devise in mischief.
All that hate me whisper together against me. Psalms 41 .
1. To address in a low voice. He whispers the man in the ear. But this is elliptical for whispers to. 2. To utter in a low sibilant voice. He whispered a word in my ear. 3. To prompt secretly as, the came to whisper Woolsey.
Whisper, n.
1. A low soft sibilant voice or words uttered with such a voice.
The whisper cannot give a tone.
Soft whispers through the assembly went.
2. A cautious or timorous speech. 3. A hissing or buzzing sound.
