Definition of sough

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Sough (v. i.) The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring.

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Object :: Object (v. t.) That by which the mind, or any of its activities, is directed; that on which the purpose are fixed as the end of action or effort; that which is sought for; end; aim; motive; final cause..
Requisitory :: Requisitory (a.) Sought for; demanded.
Request :: Request (n.) A state of being desired or held in such estimation as to be sought after or asked for; demand.
Transform :: Transform (v. t.) To change into another substance; to transmute; as, the alchemists sought to transform lead into gold..
Implore :: Implore (v. t.) To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought..
Romanticism :: Romanticism (n.) A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi/val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style..
Sough :: Sough (v. i.) To whistle or sigh, as the wind..
Sough :: Sough (n.) A sow.
Rage :: Rage (n.) The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage..
Gallicanism :: Gallicanism (n.) The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church..
Sough :: Sough (v. i.) Hence, a vague rumor or flying report..
Syncretistic :: Syncretist (n.) an adherent of George Calixtus and other Germans of the seventeenth century, who sought to unite or reconcile the Protestant sects with each other and with the Roman Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church..
Sough :: Sough (v. i.) The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring.
Sough :: Sough (v. i.) A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying..
Sought :: Sought (imp. & p. p.) of See.
Burn :: Burn (v. i.) In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought..
Proportion :: Proportion (n.) The rule of three, in arithmetic, in which the three given terms, together with the one sought, are proportional..
Spagyrist :: Spagyrist (n.) One of a sect which arose in the days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists..
Besought :: Besought () p. p. of Beseech.
Farfetched :: Farfetched (a.) Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.
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