Verb

To make a hissing sound.

As I started to poke it, the snake hissed at me.

The arrow hissed through the air.

* Wordsworth

Shod with steel, / We hissed along the polished ice.

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To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.

* Bible, Ezekiel xxvii. 36

The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee.

* Shakespeare

if the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them

To utter with a hissing sound.

* Tennyson

the long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise

Verb

(disput)

To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.

To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.

Some residents disputed the proposal, saying it was based more on emotion than fact.

To oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of.

to dispute assertions or arguments

* Bancroft

to seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance

To strive or contend about; to contest.

* Prescott

to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards

(obsolete) To struggle against; to resist.

* Shakespeare

Dispute it [grief] like a man.