Definition of humming

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Humming (a.) Emitting a murmuring sound; droning; murmuring; buzzing.

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Snowcap :: Snowcap (n.) A very small humming bird (Microchaera albocoronata) native of New Grenada.
Bombination :: Bombination (n.) A humming or buzzing.
Macrochires :: Macrochires (n. pl.) A division of birds including the swifts and humming birds. So called from the length of the distal part of the wing.
Hum :: Hum (v. i.) To express satisfaction by a humming noise.
Bum :: Bum (n.) A humming noise.
Swift :: Swift (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, long-winged, insectivorous birds of the family Micropodidae. In form and habits the swifts resemble swallows, but they are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds..
Sappho :: Sappho (n.) Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail..
Shaft :: Shaft (n.) A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also cora humming bird.
Trochili :: Trochili (n. pl.) A division of birds comprising the humming birds.
Hummer :: Hummer (n.) One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming..
Whur :: Whur (v. i.) To make a rough, humming sound, like one who pronounces the letter r with too much force; to whir; to birr..
Chumming :: Chumming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chu.
Sicklebill :: Sicklebill (n.) Any one of three species of humming birds of the genus Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer..
Hummer :: Hummer (n.) A humming bird.
Drone :: Drone (n.) To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound..
Sylphid :: Sylph (n.) Any one of several species of very brilliant South American humming birds, having a very long and deeply-forked tail; as, the blue-tailed sylph (Cynanthus cyanurus)..
Buzz :: Buzz (n.) A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones, or of a general expression of surprise or approbation..
Buzz :: Buzz (v. i.) To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice..
Sheartail :: Sheartail (n.) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Thaumastura having a long forked tail.
Hum :: Hum (v. i.) To have the sensation of a humming noise; as, my head hums, -- a pathological condition..
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