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To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.

A moaning or sighing sound or noise; a sough. [Obs.] Chaucer.

inoculated, but the virus did not take. Shak. When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise. Bacon. In impressions from mind to mind, the impression taketh, but is overcome . . . before it work any manifest effect. Bacon.

; general tendency; course; career. Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their away. Gray.

A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.

A rowlock. I would sit impatiently thinking with what an unusual amount of noise the oars worked in the thowels. Dickens.

pparatus stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing noise. Throstle cock, the missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.]

Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table.

Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon.

Without thunder or noise.

Making a noise like thunder; sounding loud and deep; sonorous. -- Thun"der*ous*ly, adv.

To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat.

A noise like that made by a clock or a watch.

s a mordant. -- Stream tin. See under Stream. -- Tin cry (Chem.), the peculiar creaking noise made when a bar of tin is bent. It is produced by the grating of the crystal granules on each other. -- Tin foil, tin reduced to a thin leaf. -- Tin frame (Mining), a kind of buddle used in washing tin ore. -- Tin liquor,…

To make a sharp, shrill noise; to tinkle. Wyclif (1 Cor. xiii. 1).

A ringing, whistling, or other imaginary noise perceived in the ears; -- called also tinnitus aurium.

A hideous or confused noise; an uproar. [Obs.] Howell.

Noiseless; stealthy. "With tiptoe step." Cowper. Tiptoe mirth, the highest degree of mirth. Sir W. Scott.

ue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle. A group of tittering pages ran before. Longfellow.

To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown. "A tooting horn." Howell. Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches. Thackeray.