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A sibilant sound, such as that made by a snake or escaping steam; an unvoiced fricative.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-2)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost) over head the dismal hissOf fiery Darts in flaming volies flew,|year=1873
(RQ:Dryden Metamorphoses)
(RQ:Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd) his form was soon covered over by the twilight as his footsteps mixed in with the low hiss of the leafy trees.
(quote-text)|url=https://archive.org/details/liedownindarknes00styr_1|chapter=6|page=292|publisher=Vintage|year_published=1992|location=New York
An expression of disapproval made using such a sound.
(RQ:Foxe Actes and Monuments) in closing vp this examination agaynst (w) Archbishop of Caunterbury,|page=1878|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67927.0001.001|text=(..) in open disputations ye haue bene openly conuict, ye haue bene openly driuen out of the schole with hisses (..)
1716, (w), ''The Free-Holder'', 16(nbs)April, 1716, London: D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, pp.(nbs)203-204,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004806457.0001.000
- The Actors, in the midst of an innocent old Play, are often startled with unexpected Claps or Hisses; and do not know whether they have been talking like good Subjects, or have spoken Treason.
(RQ:Twain Innocents Abroad)
To make a hiss, a sibilant sound of air escaping.
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(RQ:Ovid Golding Metamorphosis)
1797, (w), chapter 7, in ''Italian (novel)|The Italian'', volume II, London: T. Cadell Jun. & W. Davies, page(nbs)236:
- The man came back, and said something in a lower voice, to which the other replied, “she sleeps,” or Ellena was deceived by the hissing consonants of some other words.
{{quote-book|en|year=1995|author=Rohinton Mistry|title=A Fine Balance|location=Toronto|publisher=McClelland and Stewart|chapter=10|page=487|url=https://archive.org/details/finebalanc00mist
To call someone by hissing.
(RQ:Heller Catch-22)
To condemn or express contempt (for someone or something) by hissing.
(RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar)
(RQ:King James Version)
(RQ:More Antidote)
{{quote-text|en|year=1793|author=Elizabeth Inchbald|title=Every One Has His Fault|location=London|publisher=G.G.J. and J. Robinson|section=Prologue|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004844858.0001.000
{{quote-text|en|year=1803|author=Robert Charles Dallas|title=The History of the Maroons|location=London|publisher=Longman and Rees|section=Volume 1, Letter 5, p. 145|url=https://archive.org/details/cihm_44228
{{quote-text|en|year=1961|author=Walker Percy|title=The Moviegoer|location=New York|publisher=Ivy Books|year_published=1988|section=Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 38|url=https://archive.org/details/moviegoer00walk
To utter (something) with a hissing sound.
(quote-book)|title=An Epistle to Churchill (satirist)|C. Churchill|location=London|publisher=William Flexney|page=7|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004796250.0001.000
(RQ:Tennyson Maud)
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2012, (w), ''(w)'', New York: Henry Holt, Part 2, “Master of Phantoms,”
- All day from the queen’s rooms, shouting, slamming doors, running feet: hissed conversations in undertones.
To move with a hissing sound.
(quote-text) of (w)|location=London|publisher=Bernard Lintott|section=Volume 4, Book 15, lines 690-691, p. 192|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004836009.0001.004
{{quote-book|en|year=1815|author=William Wordsworth|chapter=Influence of Natural Objects|title=Poems by William Wordsworth|location=London|publisher=Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown|volume=1|page=46|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001428213
(RQ:Hardy Tess)
{{quote-book|en|year=1997|author=Annie Proulx|chapter=Brokeback Mountain|title=Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories|location=London|publisher=Harper Perennial|year_published=2005|page=283|url=https://archive.org/details/brokebackmountai00anni_0
(quote-text)|location=London|publisher=Heinemann|section=Part 2, Chapter 1, p. 72|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.285973
(quote-text)|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.215897|chapter=26|page=500|publisher=Viking|location=New York
(quote-text)|location=New York|publisher=Dell|year_published=1977|section=Part 1, p. 16|url=https://archive.org/details/boysfrombrazil00levi
To whisper, especially angrily or urgently.
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