Suddenly at my shoulder Shalah gave the hoot of an owl, followed at a second's interval by a second and a third.

No runner could keep pace by Caoilte's side, And ere the Fians, following in his path, Had wended from the deep and dusky strath, He swept o'er Clyne, and heard the awesome owls That hoot afar and near in woody Foulis, And he had reached the slopes of fair Rosskeen Ere Finn by Fyrish came.

And that water is in sum place clere, and in sum place trouble: in sum place hoot, and in sum place cole.

V. cry, roar, shout, bawl, brawl, halloo, halloa, hoop, whoop, yell, bellow, howl, scream, screech, screak^, shriek, shrill, squeak, squeal, squall, whine, pule, pipe, yaup^. cheer; hoot; grumble, moan, groan. snore, snort; grunt &c (animal sounds)

[turkeys]; quack [duck]; honk, gaggle, guggle [goose]; crow, caw, squawk, screech, [crow]; cackle, cluck, clack [hen, rooster, poultry]; chuck, chuckle; hoot, hoo

Beyond them the high chimney-stacks of the steamers on the river could still be seen, some with a wisp of smoke curling upwards into the still air; and at times the long, melancholy hoot of a steam-syren broke the stillness of the evening.

A flight of green parrots sweep screaming above your head, the golden oriole or mango bird, the koel, with here and there a red-tufted bulbul, make a faint attempt at a chirrup; but as a rule the deep silence is unbroken, save by the melancholy hoot of some blinking owl, and the soft monotonous coo of the ringdove or the green pigeon.

We got into a thick fog and had to stand still and hoot, while somethinga homeward-bound steamer, they saynearly ran us down.

Mr. Bowie, do you know that I am almost as old as you?" "Hoot, hut, hut" says Bowie, looking at the wax-like complexion and bright hawk-eyes.

He had just begun to ask himself these questions, and a horrible suspicion was forming itself in his mind, when he heard the hoot of an owl from the direction of the beach.

He never seemed to care a hoot about the working end of the business, so long as it produced dividends.

Hear dat hoot owl in dat tree.

Dat old hoot owl gwine hoot right out at yew.

Dat old hoot owl gwine hoot right out at yew.

If I walked away from the house to get rid of them, they would follow and hoot at me; and when I reproved them they informed me they were not going "to knuckle under to old Melvyn's darter, the damnedest fool in the world, who's lost all his prawperty, and has to borry money off of pa.

She'd hoot you, she'd shout you, she'd clap her hands at you.

By William N. Loucks & J. Weldon Hoot.

William N. Loucks (A) & Cynthia Lee Thompson (C of J. Weldon Hoot); 10Sep76; R641284.

By William N. Loucks & J. Weldon Hoot. © 5Oct38; A120954.

Come on, Joehave a hoot.

Such is the Variety of Opinions [which ] are here entertained of me, so that I pass among some for a disaffected Person, and among others for a Popish Priest; among some for a Wizard, and among others for a Murderer; and all this for no other Reason, that I can imagine, but because I do not hoot and hollow and make a Noise.

we boys would hoot him in Boston.

What held her to fortitude had been the drone and intermittent hoot of a steam-organ many streets away.

They do say the ghost of Chinna Tumbe walks,that always at midnight, when the Indian nightingale fills the Baboo's banian topes with her lugubrious song, and the weird ulus hoot from the peepul tops, a child, girt with silver bells, and followed by a Persian kitten and a mungooz, shakes the Baboo's gate, blows upon a silver whistle, and cries, so piteously, "Ayah! Ayah!" * *

N.B.CHAUFFEURS ARE KINDLY REQUESTED NOT TO HOOT WHEN PASSING.