From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hushing \Hush"ing\, noun (Mining) The process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins, by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; -- also called {booming} and {hydraulic mining}. [1913 Webster +PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Boom \Boom\ (b[=oo]m), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Boomed}, p. pr. & vb. n. {Booming}.] [Of imitative origin; cf. OE. bommen to hum, D. bommen to drum, sound as an empty barrel, also W. bwmp a hollow sound; aderyn y bwmp, the bird of the hollow sound, i. e., the bittern. Cf. {Bum}, {Bump}, verb (used without an object), {Bomb}, verb (used without an object)]
1. To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects.
At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone. --Tennyson.
2. To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.
Alarm guns booming through the night air. --W. Irving.
3. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
She comes booming down before it. --Totten.
4. To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.
O'er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar. --Falcone.
2. Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity. [Colloq. U. S.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Booming \Boom"ing\, noun The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep, hollow sound; as, the booming of bitterns. --Howitt.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids" [syn: {flourishing}, {palmy}, {prospering}, {prosperous}, {roaring}, {thriving}]
2: used of the voice [syn: {stentorian}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "booming": balmy, birring, blooming, blossoming, bombilation, bombinating, bombination, boom, burring, buzzing, cannonade, cannonading, clear, deafening, droning, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earthshaking, echo, echoic, echoing, exuberant, fair, fat, flourishing, flowering, forte, fortissimo, fruiting, full, fulminating, going strong, growl, growling, grumble, grumbling, halcyon, hum, humming, in full swing, in good case, lingering, loud, loud-sounding, loudish, low rumbling, palmy, peal, pealing, persistent, piercing, piping, plangent, prospering, prosperous, purring, reboant, reboation, rebound, rebounding, reecho, reechoing, repercussive, resound, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberation, reverberatory, ringing, roar, roaring, robust, roll, rolling, rosy, rumble, rumbling, sleek, sonorous, sounding, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, thrifty, thriving, thrumming, thunder, thundering, thunderlike, thunderous, thundery, tonitruant, tonitruous, undamped, vigorous, volleying, whirring, whizzing, window-rattling
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