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Hums

British  
/ hʊms /

noun

  1. a variant of Homs

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Hums a low song about a bird with broken wings who learns to fly.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

Hums out I should have been scared of him.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

To call them Syrians, would be to confound them with the "Syrian" or "Jacobite" sect, who are found only in the vicinity of Hums, Hamath and Mardin.

From The Women of the Arabs by Robinson, Charles S. (Charles Seymour)

Wilson, a missionary of the A. B. C. F. M., took up his residence in Hums in October 1855, and remained until obliged to leave by the civil war which raged in the country in 1860.

From The Women of the Arabs by Robinson, Charles S. (Charles Seymour)

Such meetings have been conducted in Hums 222and Tripoli, in Beirût, Abeih, Deir el Komr and Sidon, and in Suk el Ghurb, B'hamdûn, Hasbeiya, and Deir Mimas for many years.

From The Women of the Arabs by Robinson, Charles S. (Charles Seymour)