Word Meanings - SIBILANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds. -- n.
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- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - 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. - 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 - 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. - 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. - MAKE
A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer. - UTTERMOST
Extreme; utmost; being; in the farthest, greatest, or highest degree; as, the uttermost extent or end. "In this uttermost distress." Milton. - MAKED
Made. Chaucer. - MAKE-UP
The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward. - MAKESHIFT
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot. - 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. - UTTERMORE
Further; outer; utter. Holland. - UTTERLESS
Incapable of being uttered. A clamoring debate of utterless things. Milton. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - 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 - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - 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; - BUTTER-SCOTCH
A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens. - STRAW-CUTTER
An instrument to cut straw for fodder. - BRICKMAKER
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. - SAILMAKER
One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n. - WIDOW-MAKER
One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak. - SWARD-CUTTER
A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower. - PUTTER-ON
An instigator. Shak.