Definition of "soughing" [soughing]

• Present participle of sough. (verb)

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• "One of the guests at our later, different dance, in Corgarff Castle, must have remembered this, for suddenly there was a sort of "soughing" of the song, then a singing of it, and it was positively roared out by the assembly when the music stopped and the dance ended."
• "Just then a faint "soughing" sound among the branches suggested another idea to Griselda."
• "The soughing of the Battenkill sparked a language more inspired than mine."