Word Meanings - MURMUROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson.
Related words: (words related to MURMUROUS)
- EXCITO-MOTION
Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. - EXCITABLE
Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated. - EXCITING
Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes. - EXCITATION
The act of producing excitement ; also, the excitement produced. (more info) 1. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon. - EXCITABILITY
The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. (more info) 1. The quality of being readily excited; - SUMMERSTIR
To summer-fallow. - EXCITATOR
A kind of discarder. - ATTENDMENT
An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne. - SUMMERHOUSE
A rustic house or apartment in a garden or park, to be used as a pleasure resort in summer. Shak. - EXCITATE
To excite. Bacon. - 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. - EXCITEFUL
Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman. - MURMUROUS
Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson. - EXCITO-NUTRIENT
Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified. - ATTEND
L. attendre to stretch, , to apply the mind to; ad + 1. To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney. - MURMURATION
The act of murmuring; a murmur. Skelton. - EXCITO-SECRETORY
Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action. - MURMURER
One who murmurs. - COMPLAINTFUL
Full of complaint. - ATTENDANT
Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant, - MIDSUMMER
The middle of summer. Shak. Midsummer daisy , the oxeye daisy. - TRANSSUMMER
See 2 - RATTLEWINGS
The golden-eye. - OVEREXCITE
To excite too much.