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

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

Hiss :: Hiss (v. t.) To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.

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..

Sibilant :: Sibilant (a.) Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds..

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

Whiz :: Whiz (n.) A hissing and humming sound.

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

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

Sizzle :: Sizzle (v. i.) To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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