2. Noun. A hissing sound ¹
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Definition of Sibilating
1. sibilate [v] - See also: sibilate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sibilating
Literary usage of Sibilating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Clinical Introduction to the Practice of Auscultation, and Other Modes of by Henry Marshall Hughes (1854)
"... which constitute the sibilating rattle or rhoncus ("rale sibilant") of authors.
The sonorous rattle then depends upon some obstruction, produced either ..."
2. A clinical introduction to the practice of auscultation, and other modes of by Henry Marshall Hughes (1845)
"... the sound is of a higher pitch; hissing or squeaking noises are then heard,
which constitute the sibilating rattle (" rale sibilant") of authors. ..."
3. Music of Nature, Or, An Attempt to Prove that what is Passionate and by William Gardiner (1849)
"... except as an ancient form of Sigma or S;t * Query—Did the Hebrews give their
3 a sibilating sound, or Chaldee? t It is difficult to conceive any other ..."
4. The London Medical Gazette (1835)
""fhe musical or sibilating bellows-soot i is very rarely produced by the heart,
mi never in a very distinct manner. The bruit de soufflet may exist in un ..."
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