[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

whistle \whis"tle\, v. t.
   1913 webster
   1. to form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a
      tune or an air.
      1913 webster

   2. to send, signal, or call by a whistle.
      1913 webster

            he chanced to miss his dog; we stood still till he
            had whistled him up.                  --addison.
      1913 webster

   to whistle off.
      a to dismiss by a whistle; -- a term in hawking. "as a
          long-winged hawk when he is first whistled off the
          fist, mounts aloft." --burton.
      b hence, in general, to turn loose; to abandon; to
          dismiss.
          1913 webster

                i 'ld whistle her off, and let her down the wind
                to prey at fortune.               --shak.
          1913 webster

   note: "a hawk seems to have been usually sent off in this
         way, against the wind when sent in search of prey; with
         or down the wind, when turned loose, and abandoned."
         --nares.
         1913 webster
see also:
to whistle off 

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