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Hums

British  
/ hʊms /

noun

  1. a variant of Homs

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

And the spray upsprings On its ghost-white wings, And tosses a kiss at the stars; While a water-sprite, In sea-pearls dight, Hums a sea-hymn's solemn bars.

From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean

Only at Hasbeiya, Hums, and Ain Zehalty had native pastors been found for the churches.

From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Anderson, Rufus

How he seized and kist a blossom, From its tree, thorny tree, Plucked and placed in Annie’s bosom, Hums the bee!

From Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature by Garrett, Edmund Henry

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