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Webster 1913 Edition
Whooping
Whoop′ing
,Whooping cough
(Med.)
, a violent, convulsive cough, returning at longer or shorter intervals, and consisting of several expirations, followed by a sonorous inspiration, or whoop; chin cough; hooping cough.
Dunglison.
– Whooping crane
(Zool.)
, a North American crane (
– Crus Americana
) noted for the loud, whooplike note which it utters. Whooping swan
(Zool.)
, the whooper swan. See the Note under
Swan
.