Word Meanings - SINGULT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough. Spenser. W. Browne.

Related words: (words related to SINGULT)

• SOBBING
  A series of short, convulsive inspirations, the glottis being suddenly closed so that little or no air enters into the lungs.
• HICCOUGH
  A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.