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

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

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

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..

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

Hissed :: Hissed (imp. & p. p.) of His.

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

Hiss :: Hiss (n.) Any sound resembling that above describe.

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

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

Hizz :: Hizz (v. i.) To hiss.

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

Piping :: Piping (v.) Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids.

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