Definition of Sough

1. Verb. Make a murmuring sound. "The water was purling"

Exact synonyms: Purl
Generic synonyms: Make Noise, Noise, Resound

Definition of Sough

1. n. A sow.

2. n. A small drain; an adit.

3. n. The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring.

4. v. i. To whistle or sigh, as the wind.

Definition of Sough

1. Verb. To make a soft rustling or murmuring sound. ¹

2. Noun. A rushing, rustling sound. ¹

3. Noun. A sigh. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sough

1. to make a moaning or sighing sound [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sough

souced
soucekite
souces
souchong
souchongs
soucing
soucouyant
soucouyants
souct
soudans
soufffle
souffle
souffled
souffleed
souffles
sough (current term)
soughed
soughing
soughingly
soughs
sought
sought-after
sought-after(a)
sought after
souk
souklike
soukous
soukouses
souks
soul

Literary usage of Sough

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"'s woody ground, nor get any of the coals under it, except what should arise in the drift of the intended sough, and that .1., hie heirs and assigns, ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Exchequer: And Upon by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Henry Horn, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone (1840)
"And the lessee covenanted with all speed to open and cleanse the said sough, from •the tail thereof, to the fore-field thereof; and that he should and would ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace (1849)
"Before the year 1705, a company of adventurers had begun to construct a sough or level, now called the Cromford sough, for the n. ;urpose of draining a ..."

4. The Digest of English Case Law: Containing the Reported Decisions of the by John Mews (1898)
"The mouth of the sough was close to a stream called the Bonsall Brook, ... In 1738, the then proprietors of the sough, through whom the plaintiffs claimed a ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace (1840)
"... veins, rakes, or pipes aforesaid, then within the title of the said sough : and the lessee covenanted with all speed to open and cleanse the said sough, ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law of Easements by Charles James Gale (1908)
"The new sough was, therefore, constructed by the consent of some, if not all, of those mine owners who had formerly used the Cromford sough, and in part for ..."

7. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1901)
"In the year 1813, up to which period the Meer Brook sough had been confined to Wirksworth, a branch or level into Cromford, and under the lands of Mr. ..."

8. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Common Law as Altered and by Charles Petersdorff (1844)
"But the user of IN the year 1/00, certain persons had in part constructed a water produced sough, or under-ground watercourse, called the Cromford sough, ..."

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