Murmurous

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Murmurous \Mur"mur*ous\, a. [Cf. L. murmuriosus, OF. murmuros.]
     Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint;
     murmuring. [Archaic or Poetic]
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           The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. --Tennyson.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  murmurous
       adj : characterized by soft sounds; "a murmurous brook"; "a
             soughing wind in the pines"; "a slow sad susurrous
             rustle like the wind fingering the pines"- R.P.Warren
             [syn: {rustling}, {soughing}, {susurrous}]