Word Meanings - SIFFLEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation. A. Brewer.
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- BREWER
One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors. - SOUNDLY
In a sound manner. - 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. - WHISTLER
The hoary, or northern, marmot . (more info) 1. One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound. The ring ousel. The widgeon. The golden-eye. The golden plover and the gray plover. - SOUNDING BALLOON
An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aƫronautic purposes. - SOUND-BOARD
A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton. - WHISTLING
a. & n. from Whistle, v. Whistling buoy. See under Buoy. -- Whistling coot , the American black scoter. -- Whistling Dick. An Australian shrike thrush . The song thrush. -- Whistling duck. The golden-eye. A tree duck. -- Whistling - SOUND
1. To causse to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn. A bagpipe well could he play and soun . Chaucer. 2. To cause to exit as a sound; as, to sound a note with the voice, or on an instrument. 3. To order, direct, indicate, - SOUNDING-BOARD
A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. 2. A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. 3. pl. - WHISTLE
1. To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds. The weary plowman leaves - SOUNDABLE
Capable of being sounded. - WHISTLEWING
The American golden-eye. - WHISTLINGLY
In a whistling manner; shrilly. - BREWERY
A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on. - WHISTLY
In a whist manner; silently. - SOUNDER
One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound. - WHISTLEFISH
A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe. - HISSINGLY
With a hissing sound. - SOUNDAGE
Dues for soundings. - WHISTLEWOOD
The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple. - 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 - ASSIBILATION
Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to - shun, duke to ditch. - SOUNDLESS
Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak. - MISSOUND
To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall. - 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 - CONSOUND
A name applied loosely to several plants of different genera, esp. the comfrey. (more info) comfrey ; con- +