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A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel. [Obs.] And deluges of armies from the town Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw. Dryden.

With repeated strokes and noise, as of something long and loose. Ash.

To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face. The flushing noise of many waters. Boyle. It flushes violently out of the cock. Mortimer.

ater strikes the tips of the floats; -- so called from the spattering, and the fluttering noise it makes.

Noise; clatter; crash. [R.] Southey.

To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.

annoying ado about trifles. Byron. Zealously, assiduously, and with a minimum of fuss or noise Carlyle.

To make a noise like a goose; to cackle. Bacon.

To strike aghast; to affright. [Obs.] Ghasted by the noise I made. Full suddenly he fled. Shak.

To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily, or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice. The river glideth at his own sweet will. Wordsworth.

To make a noise like that of a turkey cock. Prior.

shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise. O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong. Longfellow.

ra inquieta) of Australia; -- called also restless thrush and volatile thrush. It makes a noise like a scissors grinder, to which the name alludes. Grinder's asthma, phthisis, or rot (Med.), a lung disease produced by the mechanical irritation of the particles of steel and stone given off in the operation of grinding.…

The noise of one that grumbles.

To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound. Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life. Shak. Grunting ox (Zoöl.), the yak.

The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. "Tinkling gurgles." W. Thompson.

d in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly. I hastened to the spot whence the noise came. D

An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise.

Distressing or offensive to the ear; exciting terror or dismay; as, a hideous noise. "Hideous cries." Shak.

To make a similar noise by any means; to pass with a sibilant sound; as, the arrow hissed as it flew. Shod with steel, We hissed along the polished ice. Wordsworth.