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Hiss :: Hiss (n.) The noise made by steam escaping through a narrow orifice, or by water falling on a hot stove..

Hissing :: Hissing (n.) The act of emitting a hiss or hisses.

Hissing :: Hissing (n.) The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision.

Siss :: Siss (v. i.) To make a hissing sound; as, a flatiron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger..

Damn :: Damn (v. t.) To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc..

Sizzle :: Sizzle (n.) A hissing sound, as of something frying over a fire..

Sifflement :: Sifflement (n.) The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation.

Hissingly :: Hissingly (adv.) With a hissing sound.

Hiss :: Hiss (n.) The noise made by a serpent.

Onomatopoeia :: Onomatopoeia (n.) The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents; as, the buzz of bees; the hiss of a goose; the crackle of fire..

Piping :: Piping (v.) Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids.

Sibilation :: Sibilation (n.) Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss..

Fizzle :: Fizzle (v. i.) To make a hissing sound.

Simmer :: Simmer (v. i.) To boil gently, or with a gentle hissing; to begin to boil..

Basilisk :: Basilisk (n.) A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice..

Sibilate :: Sibilate (v. t. & i.) To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation..

Hiss :: Hiss (v. i.) To make a similar noise by any means; to pass with a sibilant sound; as, the arrow hissed as it flew..

Hiss :: Hiss (n.) The note of a goose when irritated.

Siss :: Siss (n.) A hissing noise.

Hiss :: Hiss (v. t.) To utter with a hissing sound.

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