intransitive. To hiss, make a hissing sound. Also transitive (originally English regional): to make a hissing sound at (a person); to incite (an…

intransitive. = hiss, v.

intransitive. To make the sharp spirant sound emitted by certain animals, as geese and serpents, or caused (e.g.) by the escape of steam through a…

intransitive. = hizz, v.

intransitive. To make a hissing or whizzing noise.

intransitive. To make a sibilant sound of some kind; to whistle, hiss, whizz, or wheeze; transitive to whistle to.

intransitive. To emit a kind of hissing sound.

Onomatopoeic representation of a prolonged or reiterated hissing sound. Hence also n. v. Cf. sh, n.1.