Word Meanings - MURMUROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson.

Related words: (words related to MURMUROUS)

• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• EXCITABLE
  Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• EXCITING
  Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.
• EXCITATION
  The act of producing excitement ; also, the excitement produced. (more info) 1. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon.
• EXCITABILITY
  The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. (more info) 1. The quality of being readily excited;
• SUMMERSTIR
  To summer-fallow.
• EXCITATOR
  A kind of discarder.
• ATTENDMENT
  An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.
• SUMMERHOUSE
  A rustic house or apartment in a garden or park, to be used as a pleasure resort in summer. Shak.
• EXCITATE
  To excite. Bacon.
• MURMUR
  1. A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water. 2. A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice. Chaucer. Some discontents there are, some idle murmurs. Dryden.
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• MURMUROUS
  Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson.
• EXCITO-NUTRIENT
  Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.
• ATTEND
  L. attendre to stretch, , to apply the mind to; ad + 1. To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney.
• MURMURATION
  The act of murmuring; a murmur. Skelton.
• EXCITO-SECRETORY
  Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.
• MURMURER
  One who murmurs.
• COMPLAINTFUL
  Full of complaint.
• ATTENDANT
  Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant,
• MIDSUMMER
  The middle of summer. Shak. Midsummer daisy , the oxeye daisy.
• TRANSSUMMER
  See 2
• RATTLEWINGS
  The golden-eye.
• OVEREXCITE
  To excite too much.