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• hum — 1 verb hummed, humming 1 (I, T) to sing a tune by making a continuous sound with your lips closed: Carol hummed quietly to herself as she worked. 2 (I) to make a low, continuous sound: insects humming in the hot summer air 3 (I) to be very busy… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Hum — Hum, n. 1. A low monotonous noise, as of bees in flight, of a swiftly revolving top, of a wheel, or the like; a drone; a buzz. [1913 Webster] The shard borne beetle with his drowsy hums. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Any inarticulate and buzzing sound; …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• bees —    In medieval, Elizabethan, and Stuart times, bees were regarded as mysterious, intelligent, and holy; their wax was used in church *candles, honey was a biblical image for God s grace and the joys of heaven, poets praised the hive as a model… …   A Dictionary of English folklore

• hum — [[t]hʌ̱m[/t]] hums, humming, hummed 1) VERB If something hums, it makes a low continuous noise. The birds sang, the bees hummed... Within five hours, the equipment will be humming away again... [V ing] There was a low humming sound in the sky. N… …   English dictionary

• hum — 01. He was happily [humming] a tune to himself as he worked. 02. Bees [hummed], and birds sang in the sunny spring air. 03. Even when we were in the forest far from the traffic, we could hear cars [humming] by on the highway. 04. The [hum] of… …   Grammatical examples in English

• Venous hum — Hum Hum, n. 1. A low monotonous noise, as of bees in flight, of a swiftly revolving top, of a wheel, or the like; a drone; a buzz. [1913 Webster] The shard borne beetle with his drowsy hums. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Any inarticulate and buzzing… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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• Territories in The Pendragon Adventure — Halla, in D. J. MacHale s Pendragon, refers to everything. Every territory, every person, every living thing, every time there ever was (according to the character Press Tilton in The Merchant of Death). The following is the list of territories… …   Wikipedia

• In the Seven Woods — is a volume of poems by William Butler Yeats, published in 1903. This is the first book of Yeats middle period, in which he eschewed his previous Romantic ideals and preference for pre Raphaelite imagery, in favor of a more spare style and an… …   Wikipedia

• Murmur — Mur mur, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Murmured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Murmuring}.] [F. murmurer, L. murmurare, murmurari, fr. murmur murmur; cf. Gr. ? to roar and boil, said of water, Skr. marmara a rustling sound; prob. of imitative origin.] 1. To make a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Murmured — Murmur Mur mur, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Murmured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Murmuring}.] [F. murmurer, L. murmurare, murmurari, fr. murmur murmur; cf. Gr. ? to roar and boil, said of water, Skr. marmara a rustling sound; prob. of imitative origin.] 1. To… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English