a. rare. [ad. L. strepentem pr. pple. of strepĕre to make a noise.] Noisy.
1750. Shenstone, Rural Elegance, 287. Peace to the strepent horn! Let no harsh dissonance disturb the Morn.
1801–2. Campbell, Mobiade, 9. No strepent goose at Christmas-tide Hissed in the strangler’s hand.
1817. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., xxiv. (1818), II. 384. He … had called many to witness the vibrating and strepent wings of this trumpeter humble-bee.
1830. W. L. Bowles, Life Ken, I. iv. 59. Ten thousand strepent horns of pamphleteering fury.
