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/wˈɪslər/ /hwˈɪslər/ Listen

noun

Whistler n.

One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.

(Zool.)

(a)

The ring ousel.

(b)

The widgeon. (Prov. Eng.)

(c)

The golden-eye.

(d)

The golden plover and the gray plover.

(Zool.) The hoary, or northern, marmot (Arctomys pruinosus).

(Zool.) The whistlefish.

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Etymology of 'Whistler'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Whistler" Quotes from Famous Books

... produced upon him by the sudden onslaught of the hairy brute, tusks erect and mouth wide open, a perfect glimpse of elephantine fury. It forms a capital example of early impressionism, respectfully recommended to the favourable attention of Mr. J.M. Whistler. ...

— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen

... traveller, perchance, will leave with kindlier feelings towards those responsible for the Chantrey pictures, though envious of a collection whose catholicity embraces works by two great modern masters, Londoners by option—Legros and Whistler. But any impression that may be left on the traveller's mind by the inspection of the examples of contemporary French art exhibited in this museum should be supplemented and corrected by an examination of decorative ...

— The Story of Paris • Thomas Okey

... in Florida, the very earliest mocking bird doesn't sing till around the first of March. And this isn't quite the middle of February. There's not a mocking bird on the Peninsula that is singing, yet. The very dulcet whistler, out yonder, ought to make a ...

— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune

... There wuz one by Whistler full of the subtle mystery that he wrops round his figgers. Why you know he has painted one that to them that are sympathetic, the Little Lady in Black, will walk right out of the picture and come towards ...

— Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition • Marietta Holley

... the invention of something new or the discovery of something hitherto unperceived. When the invention or discovery is primarily beauty then we have the artistic type of Poietic mind; when it is not so, we have the true scientific man. The range of discovery may be narrowed as it is in the art of Whistler or the science of a cytologist, or it may embrace a wide extent of relevance, until at last both artist or scientific inquirer merge in the universal reference of the true philosopher. To the accumulated activities of the Poietic ...

— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells

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