Word Meanings - SIZZLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound. Forby. (more info) Etym:

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• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• 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
• 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.
• SOUNDING BALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• SOUND-BOARD
  A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
• 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.
• SOUNDABLE
  Capable of being sounded.
• HISSINGLY
  With a hissing sound.
• SOUNDAGE
  Dues for soundings.
• HISSING
  1. The act of emitting a hiss or hisses. 2. The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision. I will make this city desolate, and a hissing. Jer. xix. 8.
• SOUND
  The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
• SHRIVEL
  To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up. (more info) shrink; cf. dial. AS. screpa to pine away, Norw. skrypa to waste, skryp, skryv,
• SOUNDING
  Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words. Dryden.
• FORBY
  Near; hard by; along; past. To tell her if her child went ought forby. Chaucer. To the intent that ships may pass along forby all the sides of the city without let. Robynson .
• 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
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• CONSOUND
  A name applied loosely to several plants of different genera, esp. the comfrey. (more info) comfrey ; con- +
• RE-SOUND
  To sound again or anew.