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• n  the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
• n  a very small distance or space
• n  a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat
• v  furnish with whiskers

• Using high-speed video technology, researchers have unmasked how rats use their whiskers to feed sensory information to their brains.
• Wash technology exploded in 1995 when designer Jerome Dahan of Seven for All Mankind invented "whiskers," those now ubiquitous little white lines running across the legs that .
• Rat whiskers: I feel for you.

• beard
• face fungus
• hair's-breadth
• hairsbreadth
• hair
• whisker
• vibrissa
• sensory hair
• bewhisker

News & Articles

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• Fundraiser will benefit Happy Tails Cat Sanctuary
  Wine, Beer & Whiskers,featuring wine and beer tasting, a hot and cold appetizer buffet, salads, soft drinks, a silent auction, a 50-50 raffle, and door prizes, will benefit the Happy Tails Cat Sanctuary in Chester Township.
  June 14, 2013 - The News-Herald
• Benefit cocktail party on Friday
  What: Whiskers and Wetlands Cocktail Party
  June 13, 2013 - Kingston Daily Freeman
• Alley Cat needs a good home
  Alley Cat is a beautiful, sweet cat. She would really prefer an only cat home, but she could make an exception. Her pet parent Ryan is in the military and was being deployed to Korea. He had no friends or family members that would care for Alley, so he contacted Wags to Whiskers of Texas.
  June 13, 2013 - East Montgomery County Observer

Quotes

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• Ben Howland in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  I leaned over and Coach hadn't shaved in about five days,Howland recalled. "He felt these whiskers and said, 'I kind of feel like Bill Walton.'"
• Seth Rogen in Vancouver Sun
  It's fun to watch Kung Fu Panda just to think that some dork in San Francisco has spent 1,600 man-hours animating my whiskers,Rogen says irreverently.
• Jim Leyland in ESPN
  He's a real handsome young kid,Leyland said. "He doesn't have any gray whiskers, I can tell you that. A little baby face. He seems like a very pleasant young man. He hasn't done anything but eat since he's been here. He's in the big...