Word Finder - hissing

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To make a hissing sound.

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As I started to poke it, the snake hissed at me.

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To condemn or express contempt (for someone or something) by hissing.

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The crowd booed and hissed her off the stage.

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To utter (something) with a hissing sound.

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To move with a hissing sound.

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The arrow hissed through the air.

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To emit or eject (something) with a hissing sound.

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To whisper, especially angrily or urgently.

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The sound of a hiss.

A yellow ball of hissing fur flew past her.

Thereupon very shortly a hissing sound was heard and the machine became harder to turn as if the disk were moving through a resisting medium.

Deidre drank it down, hissing at the burn of the harsh liquid.

The Semitic name of the symbol is shin; the Greek name sigma may mean merely the hissing letter and may be a genuine Greek derivative from the verb o-4co, hiss.

When suddenly disturbed, instead of trying to escape they sit upright, with their back against a stone, hissing and showing fight in a determined manner.

The Nationalists refused to allow Lueger to speak, clapping their desks, hissing and making other noises, till at last the Young Czechs attempted to prevent the disorder by violence.

The intense calls are made during stressful situations and include growls, hissing and male mating calls.

If your coffee maker is making unusual noises such as hissing, or gurgling while it is brewing, check to see if the plumbing lines are resting on the counter.

Ocean Breath may also be referred to as Hissing Breath or Victorious Breath and is most commonly done with Vinyasa yoga, a type of yoga which synchronizes yoga poses with the rhythm of the breath.

Are there any sounds that are out of the ordinary, such as squealing, hissing, or something else?

The heating is continued for 4 to 12 hours according to the amount of silver present; the end of the reaction is known by the absence of any hissing.

Thus a West African native who wants a suhman takes a rudely-cut wooden image or a stone, a root of a plant, or some red earth placed in a pan, and then he calls on a spirit of Sasabonsum ("a genus of deities, every member of which possesses identical characteristics") to enter the object prepared, promising it offerings and worship. If a spirit consents to take up its residence in the object, a low hissing sound is heard, and the suhman is complete.

The Greek name for the sibilant (clyFca) may simply mean the hissing letter and be a derivative from vi j"co; many authorities, however, hold that it is a corruption of the Phoenician Samech.

The only noise the Tasmanian wombat makes is a low hissing, but the hairy-nosed wombat is said to emit a short quick grunt when annoyed.

It is extremely deliquescent, hissing when thrown into water, with which it combines to form phosphoric acid.

On my way to Raffi and Anthea I encountered the biggest puff adder ever and hissing away.

At the same time a faint hissing sound became audible.

Guns being fired, tanks advance firing, battleships firing a broadside, gas hissing out of cylinders.

These were laid out to create shapes such as a hissing snake, mosques, stars and crescent moons.

Then, flapping out of the doorway, six slimy green tentacles with snake heads emerged, hissing loudly.

From in front and especially from the right, in the unlifting smoke the guns boomed, and out of the mysterious domain of smoke that overlay the whole space in front, quick hissing cannon balls and slow whistling shells flew unceasingly.

Hissing, arching the back, laying back ears, etc., are all communications between animals negotiating their position in the dominance hierarchy.

She reacts with loud hissing and growling that I can hear two floors up when they are in the main part of the house.

She ends up growling and hissing, and still he doesn't stop.

Also a very good web page on hissing cockroaches.

Phebe is still hissing, swatting and growling whenever Mo comes near her.

Your goal in the beginning is simply to have the cats be in the same room without one attacking the other or too much hissing and yowling going on.

Gabriel was at his place in the underworld, a small cottage tucked into Death.s realm, in the Everdark forest of Immortal trees whose hissing, fanlike leaves and snake-like branches moved to catch the quiet wind.

Many beetles make a hissing or chirping sound by rubbing a "scraper," formed by a sharp edge or prominence on some part of their exoskeleton, over a "file" formed by a number of fine ridges situate on an adjacent region.

Scorpions of various species have been observed to make a hissing noise when disturbed, or even when not disturbed.

It was great fun hissing him, but greater fn when he hissed back!

With a choking hissing cry his head was engulfed in the blazing inferno.

With a solemn triumphal march there mingled a song, the drip from the trees, and the hissing of the saber, "Ozheg-zheg-zheg..." and again the horses jostled one another and neighed, not disturbing the choir but joining in it.

In the end, she would start hissing at them and start to attack them.