2. Especially, loud, confused, or senseless sound; clamor; din.
3. Loud or continuous talk; general talk or discussion; rumor; report. "The noise goes." Shak.
What noise have we had about transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood!
T. Baker.
Soerates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages.
Spectator. 4. Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band. [Obs.] Milton.
The king has his noise of gypsies.
B. Jonson. Syn. — Cry; outcry; clamor; din; clatter; uproar.
Noise
(Noise), v. i. To sound; to make a noise. Milton.
Noise
(Noise), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Noised ; p pr. & vb. n. Noising.]
1. To spread by rumor or report.
All these sayings were noised abroad.
Luke i. 65. 2. To disturb with noise. [Obs.] Dryden.
Noiseful
(Noise"ful) a. Loud; clamorous. [Obs.] Dryden.
Noiseless
(Noise"less), a. Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; as, the noiseless
foot of time.
So noiseless would I live.
Dryden. — Noise"less*ly, adv. — Noise"less*ness, n.
Noisette
(Noi*sette") n. (Bot.) A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of
Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties,
as the Lamarque, the Marechal (or Marshal) Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses of this class have
clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth. P. Henderson.
Noisily
(Nois"i*ly) adv. In a noisy manner.
Noisiness
(Nois"i*ness), n. The state or quality of being noisy.
Noisome
(Noi"some) a. [For noysome, fr. noy for annoy. See Annoy.]
1. Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.
"Noisome pestilence." Ps. xci. 3.
2. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid. "Foul breath is noisome." Shak.
— Noi"some*ly, adv. — Noi"some*ness, n.
Syn. — Noxious; unwholesome; insalubrious; mischievous; destructive. — Noisome, Noxious. These
words have to a great extent been interchanged; but there is a tendency to make a distinction between
them, applying noxious to things that inflict evil directly; as, a noxious plant, noxious practices, etc.,
and noisome to things that operate with a remoter influence; as, noisome vapors, a noisome pestilence,
etc. Noisome has the additional sense of disqusting. A garden may be free from noxious weeds or
animals; but, if recently covered with manure, it may be filled with a noisome smell.
