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Timbrelled :: Timbrelled (a.) Sung to the sound of the timbrel.

Birdcall :: Birdcall (n.) A sound made in imitation of the note or cry of a bird for the purpose of decoying the bird or its mate.

Asonant :: Asonant (a.) Not sounding or sounded.

Twang :: Twang (n.) An affected modulation of the voice; a kind of nasal sound.

Shrill :: Shrill (n.) A shrill sound.

Grunt :: Grunt (n.) A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog..

Plangency :: Plangency (n.) The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound.

S :: S () the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a consonant, and is often called a sibilant, in allusion to its hissing sound. It has two principal sounds; one a mere hissing, as in sack, this; the other a vocal hissing (the same as that of z), as in is, wise. Besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh, as in sure, measure. It generally has its hissing sound at the beginning of words, but in the middle and at the end of words its sound is determined by usage. In a few words it

F :: F () F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the Latin. The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma /, which probably had the value of English w consonant. The form and value of Greek letter came from the Phoenician, the ultimate source being probably Egyptian. Etymologically f is most closely related to p, k, v, and b; as in E. five, Gr. pe`nte; E. wolf, L. lupus, Gr. ly`kos; E. fox, vixen ; fragile, break; fruit, brook, v. t.;

Moan :: Moan (v. i.) A low prolonged sound, articulate or not, indicative of pain or of grief; a low groan..

Labionasal :: Labionasal (n.) A labionasal sound or letter.

Sonorous :: Sonorous (a.) Sonant; vibrant; hence, of sounds produced in a cavity, deep-toned; as, sonorous rhonchi..

Motion :: Motion (n.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts..

Ping :: Ping (n.) The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.

Fathomless :: Fathomless (a.) Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded.

Second :: Second (a.) The sixtieth part of a minute of time or of a minute of space, that is, the second regular subdivision of the degree; as, sound moves about 1,140 English feet in a second; five minutes and ten seconds north of this place..

Dead :: Dead (a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor..

Trigraph :: Trigraph (n.) Three letters united in pronunciation so as to have but one sound, or to form but one syllable, as -ieu in adieu; a triphthong..

Gabble :: Gabble (v. i.) To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls..

Cataphonics :: Cataphonics (n.) That branch of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds; catacoustics.

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