Definition of hissing

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

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Whiz :: Whiz (v. i.) To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound..
Hissing :: Hissing (n.) The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision.
Hissing :: Hissing (n.) The act of emitting a hiss or hisses.
Hissingly :: Hissingly (adv.) With a hissing sound.
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..
Sizzle :: Sizzle (n.) A hissing sound, as of something frying over a fire..
Fizz :: Fizz (v. i.) To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse..
Fizgig :: Fizgig (n.) A firework, made of damp powder, which makes a fizzing or hissing noise when it explodes..
Sibilant :: Sibilant (a.) Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds..
Fizz :: Fizz (n.) A hissing sound; as, the fizz of a fly..
Sibilation :: Sibilation (n.) Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss..
Piping :: Piping (v.) Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids.
Simmer :: Simmer (v. i.) To boil gently, or with a gentle hissing; to begin to boil..
Sibilatory :: Sibilatory (a.) Hissing; sibilant.
Hiss :: Hiss (v. t.) To utter with a hissing sound.
Sizzle :: Sizzle (v. i.) To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound..
Hiss :: Hiss (v. t.) To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.
Fizzle :: Fizzle (v. i.) To make a hissing sound.
Whiz :: Whiz (n.) A hissing and humming sound.
Sifflement :: Sifflement (n.) The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation.
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