Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Yeast; barm.
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Examples
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My part of the line was in the edge of a little thicket and from the sizzing balls and cut twigs it seemed that if I had held up an iron hat I could have caught it full of bullets in a short time
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Just then a sizzing, singing, crazy shell sung a short - metre hymn right over the house.
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Iguodala has 20 points leads sizzing Sixers past Indiana 96-86 for 5th straight win
www.startribune.com 2012
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Mr. Biden weaved his way among the sizzing pockets and reached the top.
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The lightning was darting to and fro like lurid sheets of fire, and the storm seemed to be gathering; we could hear the storm king in his chariot in the clouds, rumbling as he came, but a dead lull was seen and felt in the air and in nature; everything was in a holy hush, except the hoarse belchings of the engines, the sizzing and frying of the boilers, and the work of the machinery on the lower deck.
"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins
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A sizzing Jessica Simpson graces the June cover of Vanity Fair.
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