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sough

WordNet
  1. (v) sough
    make a murmuring sound "the water was purling"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Sough
    A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying.
  2. Sough
    A small drain; an adit.
  3. Sough
    A sow.
  4. Sough
    Hence, a vague rumor or flying report.
  5. Sough
    The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring. "The whispering leaves or solemn sough of the forest."
  6. Sough
    To whistle or sigh, as the wind.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) sough
    A murmuring sound; a rushing or whistling sound, like that of the wind; a deep sigh.
  2. (n) sough
    A gentle breeze; a waft; a breath.
  3. (n) sough
    Any rumor that engages general attention.
  4. (n) sough
    A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying; the chant or recitative characteristic of the old Presbyterians in Scotland.
  5. sough
    To make a rushing, whistling, or sighing sound; emit a hollow murmur; murmur or sigh like the wind.
  6. sough
    To breathe in or as in sleep.
  7. sough
    To utter in a whining or monotonous tone.
  8. (n) sough
    A channel.
  9. (n) sough
    A drain; a sewer; an adit of a mine.
  10. (n) sough
    An obsolete form of sow.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.i) Sough
    sow as Scot., sōōh, to sigh, as the wind
  2. (v.t) Sough
    to whine out cantingly
  3. (n) Sough
    a sighing of the wind: a vague rumour: a whining tone of voice
  4. (n) Sough
    suf a drain, sewer, mine-adit
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. Icel. sgr,in comp.) a rushing sound, or OE. swough, swogh, a sound, AS. swgan, to rustle. Cf. Surf Swoon (v. i.)

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Prob. W. soch, a drain.

Usage in literature

The sough of the wind and the fleeing cloud of night was all they saw or heard. "The Dew of Their Youth" by S. R. Crockett

No sound was audible save the soughing of night wind in the trees, the shrilling of insects. "Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930" by Various

The Queen had been in a manner lanerly with her ladies when the sough of the coming multitude reached her. "Ringan Gilhaize" by John Galt

A stormy wind soughed in the upper atmospheric regions. "The Grandee" by Armando Palacio Valdés

The wind soughed in the yew-trees. "The Weans at Rowallan" by Kathleen Fitzpatrick

The wind came soughing up the canyon with the sound of the sea. "Through Our Unknown Southwest" by Agnes C. Laut

The water was ruffled, the incoming waves white-crested, and the wind was soughing a little around the boat-house behind them. "The House of Fulfilment" by George Madden Martin

I listened to every sough of the wind, with a fear lest the clanking halberts of the watch should be in it. "The Men of the Moss-Hags" by S. R. Crockett

Almost instinctively his eyes sough those of Davy Jones, and a look of intelligence passed between them. "The Boy Scouts in the Rockies" by Herbert Carter

The wind was rising fast, and coming in heavy soughs from off the sea. "Thereby Hangs a Tale" by George Manville Fenn

Usage in poetry
Fearfu' soughs the boortree bank,
The rifted wood roars wild and dreary
Loud the iron yett does clank,
The cry of hoolits mak's me eerie.
"Are Ye Sleepin' Maggie?" by Robert Tannahill
The fowk wha live at the hoose doon bye,
Where the lang road tak's a turn,
Can hear, when they wauken up at nicht,
The sough o' the Bogle Burn.
"The Fiddler O' Boglebriggs" by Alexander Anderson
I thocht the Nith took a deeper sough
At that waefu', wailin' soun',
While the reid, reid streamers within the north
They glimmer'd up an' doon.
"The Weary Weird" by Alexander Anderson
"And Trouth—the sough o' a sickly win';
And Richt—what needna be;
And Beauty—nae deeper nor the skin;
And Blude—that's naething but bree.
"The Deil's Forhooit His Ain" by George MacDonald Author object (244)
An' aye a soun' gaed through the air,
But it wasna the soun' o' a bell,
Nor the sough o' the Nith, but what it could be
Nae mortal man could tell.
"The Weary Weird" by Alexander Anderson
And a' gaed weel till their bairn was born,
And syne she cudna sleep;
She wud rise at midnicht, and wan'er till morn,
Hark-harkin the sough o' the deep.
"The Mermaid" by George MacDonald Author object (244)