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Octosyllabical :: Octosyllabical (a.) Consisting of or containing eight syllables.

Short :: Short (adv.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, //22, 30..

Postfix :: Postfix (v. t.) To annex; specifically (Gram.), to add or annex, as a letter, syllable, or word, to the end of another or principal word; to suffix..

Syncopate :: Syncopate (v. t.) To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, Gloster is a syncopated form of Gloucester..

Ending :: Ending (n.) The final syllable or letter of a word; the part joined to the stem. See 3d Case, 5..

Ultima :: Ultima (n.) The last syllable of a word.

Slur :: Slur (v. t.) To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables..

Antepenultima :: Antepenultima (n.) The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl- in monosyllable..

Stammer :: Stammer (v. i.) To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter.

Affix :: Affix (v. t.) To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to a writing..

Measure :: Measure (a.) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure..

Antepenultimate :: Antepenultimate (a.) Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two.

Ionic :: Ionic (n.) A foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two short, -- that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in which case it is called the greater Ionic; or two short and two long, -- that is, a pyrrhic and a spondee, in which case it is called the smaller Ionic..

Hiatus :: Hiatus (n.) The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables.

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..

Slur :: Slur (n.) A mark, thus [/ or /], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato..

Syllabical :: Syllabical (a.) Of or pertaining to a syllable or syllables; as, syllabic accent..

Re :: Re () A syllable applied in solmization to the second tone of the diatonic scale of C; in the American system, to the second tone of any diatonic scale..

Apocope :: Apocope (n.) The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word..

Rhyme :: Rhyme (n.) Correspondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. The words or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any..

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