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Word of the Day for Thursday, June 25, 2009sough \SAU; SUHF\, intransitive verb: 1. To make a soft, low sighing or rustling sound, as the wind. At a recent visit to Marsha's grave in Rathdrum, as the wind soughed through the towering pines nearby, Marsha's brother Pat left a silk bluebird by her headstone to honor her love of the outdoors. In the dark of winter, tin roofs sough with rain. This voice she hears in the fields, in the sough of the wind among the trees, when measured and distant sounds fall upon her ears. Gunfire, cannonade, and the weeping of bereft wives and mothers might fill the air of the disunited states, but the dominant sound in greater Manhattan would be the cheerful sough of money changing hands. Sough comes from Middle English swoughen, from Old English swogan. | |||||||||
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