Dictionary Entry

hums

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/hʌmz/Used In Literature ↓

A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.

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Common Phrases

. humsalong humshums venoushums bee

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Poetry examples for “hums”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Or come you home of Monday
When Ludlow market hums
And Ludlow chimes are playing

The bee through these known alleys hums.
Beating the dian with its drums.

The bee through these known alfeys hums,
Beating the diao^ with Its drums.

And like a giant harp that hums
On always, and is always blending

Lives in the village still about the farms,
Where toil's rude uproar hums from morn till night
Noises, in which the ears of industry delight.

It shades his chimney while the singing wind
Hums songs of shelter to his happy mind.
Within his cot the largest ears of corn

Flows by the town, the churchyard fair;
And ’neath the garden-walk it hums,
The house! and is my Marguerite there

In sea-pearls dight,
Hums a sea-hymn's solemn bars.

Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
Bethankit hums.

His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons
The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums,
Hath rung night's yawning peal," etc.