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noun
Sough  n.  A sow. (Obs.)


Sough  n.  A small drain; an adit. (Prov. Eng.)


Sough  n.  
1.
The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring. "The whispering leaves or solemn sough of the forest."
2.
Hence, a vague rumor or flying report. (Scot.)
3.
A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying. (Scot.)


verb
Sough  v. i.  To whistle or sigh, as the wind.





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"Sough" Quotes from Famous Books



... six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath ...
— The Ballad of Reading Gaol • Oscar Wilde
... of Mars in Thrace, In thilke* cold and frosty region, *that There as Mars hath his sovereign mansion. In which there dwelled neither man nor beast, With knotty gnarry* barren trees old *gnarled Of stubbes sharp and hideous to behold; In which there ran a rumble and a sough*, *groaning noise As though a storm should bursten every bough: And downward from an hill under a bent* *slope There stood the temple of Mars Armipotent, Wrought all of burnish'd steel, of which th' entry Was long and strait, and ghastly for ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer
... some sair upo' them to sit there aitin' an' drinkin' an' talkin' awa', an' enjoyin' themsel's, whan ilka noo an' than there'll come a sough o' wailin' up frae the ill place, an' a smell ...
— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald
... met her in a glen about the gloamin' hour; The moon was risen o'er the trees, the dew begemm'd ilk flower, The weary wind was hush'd asleep, an' no a sough cam' nigh, E'en frae the waukrife stream that ran in silver glintin' by; I press'd her milk-white han' in mine—she smiled as angels smile, But ah! frae me her tale o' love this warld ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... enemy; but even they did not help us much, for the island was but a small one, and the thunder of the surf upon its weather shore, borne to us with almost startling distinctness, mingled with the sough of the wind among the trees and the lap of the ripples alongside, making with these a combination of sound that effectually screened any such movement as the launching of a canoe or the distant dip of paddles. I foresaw that ...
— Turned Adrift • Harry Collingwood


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