Word Meanings - SIFFLEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation. A. Brewer.

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• BREWER
  One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
• 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.
• WHISTLER
  The hoary, or northern, marmot . (more info) 1. One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound. The ring ousel. The widgeon. The golden-eye. The golden plover and the gray plover.
• SOUNDING BALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• SOUND-BOARD
  A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
• WHISTLING
  a. & n. from Whistle, v. Whistling buoy. See under Buoy. -- Whistling coot , the American black scoter. -- Whistling Dick. An Australian shrike thrush . The song thrush. -- Whistling duck. The golden-eye. A tree duck. -- Whistling
• SOUND
  1. To causse to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn. A bagpipe well could he play and soun . Chaucer. 2. To cause to exit as a sound; as, to sound a note with the voice, or on an instrument. 3. To order, direct, indicate,
• SOUNDING-BOARD
  A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. 2. A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. 3. pl.
• WHISTLE
  1. To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds. The weary plowman leaves
• SOUNDABLE
  Capable of being sounded.
• WHISTLEWING
  The American golden-eye.
• WHISTLINGLY
  In a whistling manner; shrilly.
• BREWERY
  A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.
• WHISTLY
  In a whist manner; silently.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• WHISTLEFISH
  A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.
• HISSINGLY
  With a hissing sound.
• SOUNDAGE
  Dues for soundings.
• WHISTLEWOOD
  The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• 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
• ASSIBILATION
  Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to - shun, duke to ditch.
• 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
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• CONSOUND
  A name applied loosely to several plants of different genera, esp. the comfrey. (more info) comfrey ; con- +