Word Meanings - BUZZ - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice. Like a wasp is buzzed, and stung him. Longfellow. However these disturbers of our
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To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice. Like a wasp is buzzed, and stung him. Longfellow. However these disturbers of our peace Buzz in the people's ears. Shak.
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- BUZZ
To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice. Like a wasp is buzzed, and stung him. Longfellow. However these disturbers of our - HUMMEL
To separate from the awns; -- said of barley. - BUZZER
One who, or that which, buzzes; a whisperer; a talebearer. And wants not buzzers to infect his ear With pestilent speeches of his father's death. Shak. - SOUNDER
One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound. - UTTERLY
In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain. - UTTERNESS
The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost. - SIBILANT
Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds. -- n. - HUMMER
A humming bird. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming. Ainsworth. - SOUNDLESS
Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak. - 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. - UTTER
1. Outer. "Thine utter eyen." Chaucer. "By him a shirt and utter mantle laid." Chapman. As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch. Spenser. 2. Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the center; outer. - SOUNDLY
In a sound manner. - CONTINUOUSLY
In a continuous maner; without interruption. -- Con*tin"u*ous*ness, n. - THESE
The plural of this. See This. - HUMMOCKY
Abounding in hummocks. - MURMUROUS
Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson. - HUMMOCKING
The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice. Kane. - 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. - BUZZSAW
A circular saw; -- so called from the buzzing it makes when running at full speed. according to; akin to OS.& OFries. bi, be, D. bij, OHG. bi, G. bie, Goth. bi, and perh. Gr.. E. prefix be- is orig.the same word. pref. 1. In the neighborhood of; - SPEAKERSHIP
The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives. - UNUTTERABLE
Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv. - HIGH-SOUNDING
Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles. - MUTTERER
One who mutters. - 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 - THUMMIE
The chiff-chaff. - GUTTER
1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove; - HEREHENCE
From hence. - BUTTER-SCOTCH
A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - STRAW-CUTTER
An instrument to cut straw for fodder. - INVOICE
A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed. Wharton. 2. The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large - SWARD-CUTTER
A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower. - BESPEAKER
One who bespeaks.