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Definition of neighing : of Neigh

Synonyms:

crowing, chattering, cackling, squawking, cawing, grunting, bleating, growling, mooing, quacking, mewing, squealing, crying, yelping, gobbling, honking, bellowing, baying, chirping, snarling, snorting, clucking, purring, whinnying, hooting, cuckooing, trilling, twitting, ululating, calling, howling, warbling, roaring, meowing, bawling, braying, cooing, barking

Usage examples:

• The latter stand cowering under the trees, neighing with affright- the mules among them giving vent to their plaintive hinney. - "The Lone Ranche", Captain Mayne Reid.
• John Fry is waiting by the tapster's door, and Peggy neighing to me. - "Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor", R. D. Blackmore.
• He must, if he can, imagine the howling of the wolves, the piteous cries of the lacerated and dying youth, the imprecations of the men, the neighing of the horses and roaring of the bulls in the stables; and, more than all, the crying and lamentations of the women and children in the house- a fearful chorus- such as happily few, very few persons were ever doomed to hear. - "Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches", Henri de Crignelle.