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Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. Longfellow.

nd to duration; as, an endless line; endless time; endless bliss; endless praise; endless clamor.

nst order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity. These clamorous enormities which are grown too big and strong for law or shame. South.

Outcry; clamor. [Archaic] Cursing cries and deep exclaims. Shak.

A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc. Exclamations against abuses in the church. Hooker. Thus will I d…

or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good.

ssensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster. Shak.

A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak.

To make the peculiar cry of an owl. The clamorous owl that nightly hoots. Shak.

To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of. My tongue shall hush again this storm of war. Shak.

l; a little, malignant spirit; a puny demon; a contemptible evil worker. To mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps. Beattie.

ng without interruption; unceasing; unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors; incessant pain, etc. Against the castle gate, . . . Which with incessant force and endless hate, They batter'd day and night and entrance did await. Spenser.

To scold; to clamor. [Law] Smollett.

Scolding; clamorous or abusive talk. [Slang] H. Kingsley.

affection, reverence, submission, forgiveness, etc. He . . . kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, That at the parting all the church echoed. Shak.

or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness. The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night. Shak. How could she sit the livelong day, Yet never ask us once to play Swift.

Clamorous; boisterous. She is loud and stubborn. Prov. vii. 11.

Having a loud voice; noisy; clamorous. Byron.

A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany. Addison. The clamorous crowd is hushed with mugs of mum. Pope.

Especially, loud, confused, or senseless sound; clamor; din.