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Fizgig :: Fizgig (n.) A firework, made of damp powder, which makes a fizzing or hissing noise when it explodes..

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

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

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..

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..

Fizz :: Fizz (n.) A hissing sound; as, the fizz of a fly..

Hiss :: Hiss (n.) A prolonged sound like that letter s, made by forcing out the breath between the tongue and teeth, esp. as a token of disapprobation or contempt..

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

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

Sibilatory :: Sibilatory (a.) Hissing; sibilant.

Fizz :: Fizz (v. i.) To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse..

Sibilous :: Sibilous (a.) Having a hissing sound; hissing; sibilant.

S :: S () the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a consonant, and is often called a sibilant, in allusion to its hissing sound. It has two principal sounds; one a mere hissing, as in sack, this; the other a vocal hissing (the same as that of z), as in is, wise. Besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh, as in sure, measure. It generally has its hissing sound at the beginning of words, but in the middle and at the end of words its sound is determined by usage. In a few words it

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

Effervesce :: Effervesce (v. i.) To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form..

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

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

Hissing :: Hissing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of His.

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..

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