2. To address in a whisper, or low voice. [Archaic]

And whisper one another in the ear.

Shak.

Where gentlest breezes whisper souls distressed.

Keble.

3. To prompt secretly or cautiously; to inform privately. [Obs.] "He

came to whisper Wolsey." Shak.

Whis"per, n.

1. 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.

The inward voice or whisper can not give a tone.

Bacon.

Soft whispers through the assembly went.

Dryden.

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