Word Meanings - CLUCKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The noise or call of a brooding hen.

NOISELESS
Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; as, the noiseless foot of time. So noiseless would I live. Dryden. -- Noise"less*ly, adv. -- Noise"less*ness, n.
NOISEFUL
Loud; clamorous. Dryden.
BROODY
Inclined to brood. Ray.
NOISETTE
A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses
BROOD
Heavy waste in tin and copper ores. To sit on brood, to ponder. Shak. (more info) brut, and also to G. brühe broth, MHG. brüeje, and perh. to E. brawn, 1. The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chicken. As a hen doth gather
NOISE
1. Sound of any kind. The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived. Bacon. Note: Noise is either a sound of too short a duration to be determined, like the report of a cannon; or else it is a confused mixture of many
ABROOD
In the act of brooding. Abp. Sancroft.
CHINOISERIE
Chinese conduct, art, decoration, or the like; also, a specimen of Chinese manners, art, decoration, etc.
OUTNOISE
To exceed in noise; to surpass in noisiness. Fuller.
OVERNOISE
To overpower by noise.