1. (v. i.) To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

2. (n.) A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.

3. (n.) An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the stage whisper. It is a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.

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