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Elison :: Elison (n.) The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together..

Hendecasyllable :: Hendecasyllable (n.) A metrical line of eleven syllables.

Synallagmatic :: Synalepha (n.) A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army..

Catalectic :: Catalectic (a.) Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse..

Pronunciation :: Pronunciation (n.) The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation..

Tribrach :: Tribrach (n.) A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, meblius..

Thick :: Thick (superl.) Not having due distinction of syllables, or good articulation; indistinct; as, a thick utterance..

Dissyllabify :: Dissyllabify (v. t.) To form into two syllables.

Syllable :: Syllable (n.) A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.

Syncope :: Syncope (n.) An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne'er for never, ev'ry for every..

Penult :: Penult (n.) The last syllable but one of a word; the syllable preceding the final one.

Parisyllabical :: Parisyllabical (a.) Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections.

Coronis :: Coronis (n.) In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable..

Articulated :: Articulated (a.) Produced, as a letter, syllable, or word, by the organs of speech; pronounced..

Alexandrine :: Alexandrine (n.) A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.

Thesis :: Thesis (n.) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.

Syllabist :: Syllabism (n.) The expressing of the sounds of a language by syllables, rather than by an alphabet or by signs for words..

Prefix :: Prefix (v. t.) To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement..

Syllabize :: Syllabist (n.) One who forms or divides words into syllables, or is skilled in doing this..

Choriambus :: Choriambus (n.) A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united..

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