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Word Meanings - SUSURRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A whispering; a soft murmur. "Soft susurrations of the trees." Howell.

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  • SIGH-BORN
    Sorrowful; mournful. "Sigh-born thoughts." De Quincey.
  • SIGHTLY
    1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange. 2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.
  • 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.
  • SIGHT-HOLE
    A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak.
  • MURMUROUS
    Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson.
  • SUSURRATION
    A whispering; a soft murmur. "Soft susurrations of the trees." Howell.
  • SIGHTED
    Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp- sighted, and the like.
  • QUIVERED
    1. Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver. "Like a quivered nymph with arrows keen." Milton. 2. Sheathed, as in a quiver. "Whose quills stand quivered at his ear." Pope.
  • SIGHING
    Uttering sighs; grieving; lamenting. "Sighing millions." Cowper. -- Sigh"ing*ly, adv.
  • MURMURATION
    The act of murmuring; a murmur. Skelton.
  • SIGHTING
    from Sight, v. t. Sighting shot, a shot made to ascertain whether the sights of a firearm are properly adjusted; a trial shot.
  • QUIVER
    A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person. Reside him hung his bow And quiver, with three-bolted thunder stored. Milton. (more info) chohhari quiver, receptacle, G. köcher quiver; akin to AS. color,
  • MURMURER
    One who murmurs.
  • WHISPERER
    1. One who whispers. 2. A tattler; one who tells secrets; a conveyer of intelligence secretly; hence; a backbiter; one who slanders secretly. Prov. xvi.
  • WHISPER
    1. A low, soft, sibilant voice or utterance, which can be heard only by those near at hand; voice or utterance that employs only breath sound without tone, friction against the edges of the vocal cords and arytenoid cartilages taking the place
  • SIGHTLESS
    1. Wanting sight; without sight; blind. Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar. Pope. 2. That can not be seen; invisible. The sightless couriers of the air. Shak. 3. Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains. Shak.
  • RUSTLE
    1. To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves. He is coming; I hear his straw rustle. Shak. Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk. Shak. 2. To stir about energetically; to strive
  • WHISPERINGLY
    In a whisper, or low voice; in a whispering manner; with whispers. Tennyson.
  • SIGHT-SEER
    One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities.
  • SIGHTFUL
    Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous. Testament of Love.
  • PEEP SIGHT
    An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.
  • HALF-SIGHTED
    Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon.
  • MISTRUSTLESS
    Having no mistrust or suspicion. The swain mistrustless of his smutted face. Goldsmith.
  • DISTRUSTLESS
    Free from distrust. Shenstone.
  • INSUSURRATION
    The act of whispering into something. Johnson.
  • HIGH-SIGHTED
    Looking upward; supercilious. Shak.
  • TRUSTLESS
    That may not be trusted; not worthy of trust; unfaithful. -- Trust"less*ness, n.
  • BRUSTLE
    1. To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment. Gower. 2. To make a show of fireceness or defiance; to bristle. To brustle up, to bristle up. Otway.
  • CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
    Acute discernment.
  • DULL-SIGHTED
    Having poor eyesight.
  • SIGH
    1. To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like. 2. Hence, to lament; to

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