Word Meanings - SIBILATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss. He, with a long, low sibilation, stared. Tennyson.

Related words: (words related to SIBILATION)

• STAR-READ
  Doctrine or knowledge of the stars; star lore; astrology; astronomy. Which in star-read were wont have best insight. Spenser.
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• STARK
  stiff, strong, AS. stearc; akin to OS. starc strong, D. sterk, OHG. starc, starah, G. & Sw. stark, Dan. stærk, Icel. sterkr, Goth. gastaúrknan to become dried up, Lith. strëgti to stiffen, to freeze. 1. Stiff; rigid. Chaucer. Whose senses all
• STAR-CHAMBER
  An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed
• STARCHER
  One who starches.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• STARGASER
  Any one of several species of spiny-rayed marine fishes belonging to Uranoscopus, Astroscopus, and allied genera, of the family Uranoscopidæ. The common species of the Eastern United States are Astroscopus anoplus, and A. guttatus. So called from
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• HISS
  1. To make with the mouth a prolonged sound like that of the letter s, by driving the breath between the tongue and the teeth; to make with the mouth a sound like that made by a goose or a snake when angered; esp., to make such a sound
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• STARCRAFT
  Astrology. Tennyson.
• STARPROOF
  Impervious to the light of the stars; as, a starproof elm. Milton.
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• STARVELING
  One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment. Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. Shak.
• STAROSTY
  A castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life. Brande & C.
• STARER
  One who stares, or gazes.
• STARRED
  1. Adorned or studded with stars; bespangled. 2. Influenced in fortune by the stars. My third comfort, Starred most unluckily. Shak.
• STARE
  The starling.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• STARTISH
  Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.
• DAY-STAR
  1. The morning star; the star which ushers in the day. A dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. 2 Peter i. 19. 2. The sun, as the orb of day. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• BASTARDLY
  Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt. -- adv.
• POLESTAR
  1. Polaris, or the north star. See North star, under North. 2. A guide or director.
• INSTAR
  To stud as with stars. "A golden throne instarred with gems." J. Barlow.
• ASSIBILATION
  Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to - shun, duke to ditch.
• COSTARD
  and meaning orig., a ribbed apple, from the ribs or angles on its 1. An apple, large and round like the head. Some consist more of air than water . . . ; others more of water than wind, as your costards and pomewaters. Muffett. 2. The head; --
• SEPIOSTARE
  The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.
• BUSTARD
  A bird of the genus Otis. Note: The great or bearded bustard is the largest game bird in Europe. It inhabits the temperate regions of Europe and Asia, and was formerly common in Great Britain. The little bustard (O. tetrax) inhabits eastern Europe
• EARTHSTAR
  A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
• WHITE MUSTARD
  A kind of mustard with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.
• BASTARD
  F. b, a packsaddle used as a bed by the muleteers + -ard. OF. fils de bast son of the packsaddle; as the muleteers were accustomed to use their saddles for beds in the inns. See Cervantes, 1. A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of