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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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