Boom.—Is there an English verb active to boom, and what is the precise meaning of it? Sir Walter Scott uses the participle:
"The bittern booming from the sedgy shallow."
Lady of the Lake, canto i. 31.
Vogel.
[Richardson defines Boom, v., applied as bumble by Chaucer, and bump by Dryden, to the noise of the bittern, and quotes from Cotton's Night's Quatrains,—
"Philomel chants it whilst it bleeds,
The bittern booms it in the reeds," &c.]
"A Letter to a Member of Parliament."—Who was the author of A Letter to a Member of Parliament, occasioned by A Letter to a Convocation Man: W. Rogers, London, 1697?
W. Fraser.
Tor-Mohun.