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a. & n. from Whisper. v. t. Whispering gallery, or Whispering dome, one of such a form that sounds produced in certain parts of it are concentrated by reflection from the walls to another part, so that whispers or feeble sounds are audible at a much greater distance than under ordinary circumstances.…

In a whisper, or low voice; in a whispering manner; with whispers. Tennyson.

In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant. Fast asleep the giant lay supine. Dryden. By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Milton.

To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease. Soft whispering airs . . . becalm the mind. Philips.

; to give assent or approval; to comply. My poverty, but not my will, consents. Shak. And whispering "I will ne'er consent," -- consented. Byron.

A working drift or level. Whispering gallery. See under Whispering.

To hear by listening. [Archaic] [She] hearkened now and then Some little whispering and soft groaning sound. Spenser.

To shout; to hollo. Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear. Fuller.

The act of whispering into something. [Obs.] Johnson.

To sigh; to flutter; to languish. [Poetic] The whispering breeze Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees. Pope.

To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind. Whispering tongues can poison truth. Coleridge.

To suggest; to dictate. And whispering angles prompt her golden dreams. Pope.

represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude. A statute of Rumor, whispering an idiot in the ear, who was the representative of Credulity. Addison. Difficulty must cumber this doctrine which supposes that the perfections of God are the representatives to us of whatever we perceive in the creatur…

The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring. The whispering leaves or solemn sough of the forest. W. Howitt.

Whispering. [R.] "The soft susurrant sigh." Poetry of Anti- Jacobin.

A whispering; a soft murmur. "Soft susurrations of the trees." Howell.

Whispering; rustling; full of whispering sounds. [R.]

The act of whispering; a whisper; a murmur. De Quincey. The soft susurrus and sighs of the branches. Longfellow.

to talk; loquacious. The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. Goldsmith.

uneasiness; vexation; calamity. Lest the fiend . . . some new trouble raise. Milton. Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles. Shak.