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

(en verb)

(label) To make a strong objection.

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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.

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(label) To affirm (something).

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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:I will protest your cowardice.

*1919 , , (The Moon and Sixpence) ,

*:She flashed a smile at me, and, protesting an engagement with her dentist, jauntily walked on.

To object to.

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To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Fiercely [they] opposed / My journey strange, with clamorous uproar / Protesting fate supreme.

to make a solemn written declaration, in due form, on behalf of the holder, against all parties liable for any loss or damage to be sustained by non-acceptance or non-payment of (a bill or note). This should be made by a notary public, whose seal it is the usual practice to affix.