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A sound like that made by bees; a low, murmuring sound; a hum. Hummingale, lively or strong ale. Dryden. -- Humming bird (Zoöl.), any bird of the family Trochilidæ, of which over one hundred genera are known, including about four hundred species. They are found only in America and are most abundant in the tropics. The…

To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A humming sound; a booming. To . . . silence the bombilation of guns. Sir T. Browne.

A humming or buzzing.

To make murmuring or humming sound. Jamieson.

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 low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice. Like a wasp is buzzed, and stung him. Longfellow. However these disturbers of our peace Buzz in the people's ears. Shak.

A beautuful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope) of California and adjacent regions.

A tropical humming bird of the genus Lophornis, with very elegant neck plumes. Several species are known. See Illustration under Spangle, v. t.

A humming or deep murmuring sound. The monotonous drone of the wheel. Longfellow.

er (Zoöl.), one of a family (Dicæidæ) of small Indian and Australian birds. They resemble humming birds in habits. -- Flower piece. (a) A table ornament made of cut flowers. (b) (Fine Arts) A picture of flowers. -- Flower stalk (Bot.), the peduncle of a plant, or the stem that supports the flower or fructification.…

A small gorget, as of a humming bird.

crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal. Gorget hummer (Zoöl.), a humming bird of the genus Trochilus. See Rubythroat.

ey are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis. The larvæ are large, hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright colors, and often with a caudal spine. See Sphinx, also Tobacco worm, and Tom…

that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums. P. Fletcher. Still humming on, their drowsy course they keep. Pope.

Humming bird.

One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming. Ainsworth.

instrument, as a tube inside of which is a stretched string made to vibrate by singing or humming into the tube.

A division of birds including the swifts and humming birds. So called from the length of the distal part of the wing.

ers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.