HISSING

As a mode of calling an attendant to his master’s side, is a custom very prevalent in Palestine. Says Osborne, "Whenever a servant was wanted, the usual ‘shee!’ which is so common throughout the land, started two or three in an instant." The same custom is evidently alluded to in Isa 5:26; 7:18; "The Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt," etc.

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hissing. Hissing, n. a noise or contempt by hisses

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Hiss″ing, n. 1. 1. The act of emitting a hiss or hisses.
2. 2. The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision.
I will make this city desolate, and a hissing. Jer. xix. 8.