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Sibilous   Listen
adjective
Sibilous  adj.  Having a hissing sound; hissing; sibilant. (R.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sibilous" Quotes from Famous Books



... yellow bird (it is either a species of the alauda trivialis, or rather perhaps of the motacilla trochilus) still continues to make a sibilous shivering noise in the tops of tall woods. The stoparola of Ray (for which we have as yet no name in these parts) is called in your zoology the fly-catcher. There is one circumstance characteristic of this bird which seems to have escaped observation, and that is, it ...
— The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 • Gilbert White



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