Soughing ppl. a.

[f. SOUGH v.¹] Rushing, rustling, murmuring, etc.

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Beowulf, 3145. Wudurec astah…, swoʓende leʓ.

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1513. Douglas, Æneid, VI. xi. 51. A wod with sowchand bewis schene. Ibid., VII. Prol. 74. Every lynde Quhyslyt and brayt of the swouchand wynde.

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1806. J. Grahame, Birds of Scot., 18. Thy dismal soughing wing, the doleful cry.

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1859. Mrs. Gaskell, Round the Sofa, II. 111. The soughing November wind came with long sweeps over the fells till it rattled among the cracking boughs.

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1880. Daily Tel., 29 Oct., 5/4. The nearly naked branches crackle and moan with the soughing, storm-presaging wind.

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