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sed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice. Chaucer. Some discontents there are, some idle murmurs. Dryden.

The act of murmuring; a murmur. [Obs.] Skelton.

One who murmurs.

Uttering murmurs; making low sounds; complaining. -- Mur"mur*ing*ly, adv.

Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. [Archaic or Poetic] The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson.

To murmur again; to utter back, or reply, in murmurs. The trembling trees, in every plain and wood, Her fate remurmur to the silver flood. Pope.

Like, or from, the air; in an aërial manner. "A murmur heard aërially." Tennyson.

To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones. In every babbling he finds a friend. Wordsworth.

d to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. Pope. I cannot bear The murmur of this lake to hear. Shelley. My punishment is greater than I can bear. Gen. iv. 13.

To make murmuring or humming sound. Jamieson.

To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur. Mrs. Browning.

us, 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 continuous noise or murmur. The chide of streams. Thomson.

To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel. O lose of sight, of three I most complain! Milton.

One who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer. Beattie. Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought. Shak.

Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding. I poured out my complaint before him. Ps. cxlii. 2. Grievous complaints of you. Shak.

tinuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity. he can hear its continuous murmur. Longfellow.

One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil.

To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly. Here an old grandmother was crooning over a sick child, and rocking it to and fro. Dickens.

stalline. Through crystal walls each little mote will peep. Shak. By crystal streams that murmur through the meads. Dryden. The crystal pellets at the touch congeal, And from the ground rebounds the ratting hail. H. Brooks.