Meaning of mugient | Babel Free

Definitions

Lowing; bellowing.

rare

Examples

“That a bittern maketh that mugient noise, or as we term it, bumping, by putting its bill into a reed, as most believe⟳ […]”

“Dire groans arose, / And late laments came plaining upward high / From the sepulchral cavern, that reclos'd / With roar of loudest mugient thunders dire.”

“This Hodge has made a great fortune, so say⟳ persons interested in such extrinsic matters, out of his annual laudation of God's Kansas and Ohio noblemen who drink⟳ out of the fingerbowl, pick⟳ their teeth with the oyster fork and clean⟳ their nails with the fruit knife; and he has thus provided unfailing copy⟳ for the mugient professors in the matter⟳ of bienséance and punctilio.”

“Sounds, latrant, mugient and reboatory, echoed above the city’s noise as, yelping and barking, the heterogeneous pack⟳ raced down the street, while boys and girls, armed with rulers and schoolbags, manoeuvred it to a vacant allotment.”

“Now in the mugient flutes new anguish comes, / With pain progresses to the aches of / Suddenly piercing, and my rendezvous drums.”

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