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Sequestrum :: Sequestrum (n.) A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis..

Participle :: Participle (n.) A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles..

Phonetics :: Phonetics (n.) The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology.

Crow :: Crow (v. i.) To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.

Ding :: Ding (v. i.) To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang..

Hollow :: Hollow (a.) Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend..

Belabor :: Belabor (v. t.) To beat soundly; to cudgel.

Sing :: Sing (v. i.) To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice..

Boom :: Boom (v. i.) To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects..

Sibilation :: Sibilation (n.) Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss..

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

Chime :: Chime (n.) To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming..

Sounding :: Sounding (n.) The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs)..

Birr :: Birr (n.) A whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel..

Thorn :: Thorn (n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine..

Mouille :: Mouille (a.) Applied to certain consonants having a liquid or softened sound; e.g., in French, l or ll and gn (like the lli in million and ni in minion); in Italian, gl and gn; in Spanish, ll and –; in Portuguese, lh and nh..

Sibilant :: Sibilant (a.) Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds..

Buccinal :: Buccinal (a.) Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.

Homophone :: Homophone (n.) A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright..

Orthodoxly :: Orthodoxly (adv.) In an orthodox manner; with soundness of faith.

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