Tor-Mohun.
[These lines occur in the Dean's verses "On the Death of Dr. Swift,"
and refer to Thomas Woolston, the celebrated heterodox divine, who, as
stated in a note quoted in Scott's edition, "for want of bread hath, in
several treatises, in the most blasphemous manner, attempted to turn
our Saviour's miracles in ridicule."]
_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.