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Female Rhymes :: Female rhymes () double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line..

Hyphen :: Hyphen (n.) A mark or short dash, thus [-], placed at the end of a line which terminates with a syllable of a word, the remainder of which is carried to the next line; or between the parts of many a compound word; as in fine-leaved, clear-headed. It is also sometimes used to separate the syllables of words..

Monosyllable :: Monosyllable (n.) A word of one syllable.

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

Logography :: Logography (n.) A method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used..

Atonic :: Atonic (a.) Unaccented; as, an atonic syllable..

Suffix :: Suffix (n.) A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix..

Terrasyllable :: Terrasyllable (n.) A word consisting of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.

Baritone :: Baritone (a.) Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood..

Septisyllable :: Septisyllable (n.) A word of seven syllables.

Syllabub :: Syllable (v. t.) To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.

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..

Si :: Si () A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century..

Oxytone :: Oxytone (n.) A word having the acute accent on the last syllable.

Hypermeter :: Hypermeter (n.) A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse.

Quadri-syllabical :: Quadri-syllabical () Having four syllables; of or pertaining to quadrisyllables; as, a quadrisyllabic word..

Syllabification :: Syllabication (n.) The act of forming syllables; the act or method of dividing words into syllables. See Guide to Pron., /275..

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..

Prefix :: Prefix (n.) That which is prefixed; esp., one or more letters or syllables combined or united with the beginning of a word to modify its signification; as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure..

Metathesis :: Metathesis (n.) Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager..

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