mūgĭo, īvi and ĭi, ītum, 4, v. n. [Sanscr. root, muǵ, sonare; Gr. μυκάομαι, μύζω], to low, bellow (syn. boo).
I Lit.: inde cum actae boves mugissent, Liv. 1, 7. —Prov.: hic bove percusso mugire Agamemnona credit, Juv. 14, 286.— Part. pres. subst. : mugientium Prospectat errantes greges, i. e. cattle , Hor. Epod. 2, 11.—
II Transf., of the sound of a trumpet, to bray : Tyrrhenusque tubae mugire per aethera clangor, Verg. A. 8, 526.—Of an earthquake, to rumble : sub pedibus mugire solum, id. ib. 6, 256.—Of a mast: si mugiat Africis Malus procellis. groans , Hor. C. 3, 29, 57.—Of thunder, to roar, crash, peal : mugire tonitrua, rutilare fulgura, Min. Fel. Octav. 5: quasi mugiente litterā M. Quint. 12, 10, 31: at tibi tergeminum mugiet ille sophos, will bellow or cry out to you , σοφῶς, well done! bravo! Mart. 3, 46, 8.—Also, to reject with a sound : cruentum mugiit, spat gore , Claud. Ruf. 1, 66.