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Definition of Chirming
1. chirm [v] - See also: chirm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chirming
Literary usage of Chirming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1880)
"So named from the chirming sound made in drinking ; or, it is a corr. of ...
vn To scamper, to run Warbling, chirming, chattering, West of pattering along ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1910)
"Each season has its appropriate Spring is the choicest time, with its chirming
of birds green burgeons ; the ploughs are in furrow, the oxen te ; green is ..."
3. The Dial by Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley (1842)
"The corn-craik was chirming Their path through the sky ; The burn babbled freely
His sad eerie cry, And the wee stars were dreaming Its love to ilk flower, ..."
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