mugient

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mugiens, present participle of mugire (“to bellow”).

Adjective

mugient (comparative more mugient, superlative most mugient)

1. (obsolete) lowing; bellowing
   • (Can we date this quote by Sir Thomas Browne and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mugient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• gun time, time-gun

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) mūgient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of mūgiō