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To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently. The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. Shak. There breathes a living fragrance from the shore. Byron.

To report; to noise abroad. I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited. Shak.

To run with a gurdling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream. Pope.

A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes.

a bull; male; large; fierce. Bull bat (Zoöl.), the night hawk; -- so called from the loud noise it makes while feeding on the wing, in the evening. -- Bull calf. (a) A stupid fellow. -- Bull mackerel (Zoöl.), the chub mackerel. -- Bull pump (Mining), a direct single-acting pumping engine, in which the steam cylinder…

a thong or string, with which the slat is whirled so as to cause an intermittent roaring noise. It is used as a toy, and among some races in certain religious rites.

A humming noise. Halliwell.

To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern. As a bittern bumbleth in the mire. Chaucer.

To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom. As a bittern bumps within a reed. Dryden.

A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones, or of a general expression of surprise or approbation. "The constant buzz of a fly." Macaulay.

To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. When every goose is cackling. Shak.

The broken noise of a goose or a hen.

The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.

somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horus, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari. [U. S.]

Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming. Blue Walden rolls its cannonade. Ewerson.

des, etc., arranged in a somewhat dramatic manner; originally, a composition for a single noise, consisting of both recitative and melody.

to express dissatisfaction with a play; also, a small shrill instrument for making such a noise. Upon the rising of the curtain. I was very much surprised with the great consort of catcalls which was exhibited. Addison.

To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise. Coleridge.

The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats. Shak.

Like a cat; stealthily; noiselessly.