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Sang

noun
1.
North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng.  Synonyms: American ginseng, Panax quinquefolius.


Sing

verb
(past sang; past part. sung; pres. part. singing)
1.
Deliver by singing.
2.
Produce tones with the voice.  "My brother sings very well"
3.
To make melodious sounds.
4.
Make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound.  Synonym: whistle.  "The bullet sang past his ear"
5.
Divulge confidential information or secrets.  Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, spill the beans, talk, tattle.



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"Sang" Quotes from Famous Books



... birds on the Rockies, the one most marvelously eloquent is the solitaire. I have often felt that everything stood still and that every beast and bird listened while the matchless solitaire sang. The hermit thrush seems to suppress one, to give one a touch of reflective loneliness; but the solitaire stirs one to be up and doing, gives one the spirit of youth. In the solitaire's song one feels all the freshness and the promise of spring. The song seems ...
— Wild Life on the Rockies • Enos A. Mills
... my voice was strong, I filled the woods with song To praise your "rose" and "snow"; My bird, that sang, is dead; Where are your roses ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various
... there was the gay sound of a horn. Tara, tara, tara! it sang, and right into the middle of the Fairground drove a great tally-ho coach, with pretty young ladies and fine young gentlemen ...
— The Irish Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... he again with the mermaid; whereat the graver man clapped a hand before his mouth, and swore he should take her in wedlock, to have and to hold, if he sang another stave. 'And thou shalt be her pretty little bridemaid,' quoth he gaily to the graver man, chucking ...
— Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare • Walter Savage Landor
... wept and wailed over it, the nearest relations, such as the wife and mother, sitting at the head of the corpse. About an hour after the sun had set, the drummers and singers arrived. All night the drums beat and the people sang, but just as the dawn was breaking the wild music died away into silence. The wants of the living were now attended to: the assembled people breakfasted on green coco-nuts; and then, about an hour ...
— The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) • Sir James George Frazer


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