The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.
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To aim; to direct.
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The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.
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On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart.
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To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.
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A melody; a song.
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General course of conduct; behavior.
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The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
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The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated.
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The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of…
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The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.
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A kind of lyric poetry in honor of Bacchus, usually sung by a band of revelers to a flute accompaniment; hence, in general, a poem written in a wild…
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Utterance by speech.
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The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expr…
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Offhand; without previous study; extemporaneous; extempore; as, an impromptu verse.
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Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.
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The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.
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The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.
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A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter…
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Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.
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The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; as, the modulation of the voice.
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A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in monologue.
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A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions.
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The art of uttering words correctly; a correct pronunciation of words; also, mode of pronunciation.
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The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinc…
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That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.
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of Say
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A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.
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A word which was made the criterion by which to distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites. The Ephraimites, not being able to pronounce sh, cal…
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The act of talking to one's self; a discourse made by one in solitude to one's self; monologue.
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of Speak
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A spelk, or splinter.
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To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
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Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.
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an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
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The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice…
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Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any…
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Flax; linen.
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A model or measure.
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To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove;…
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Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval.
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Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.
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Refutation; confutation; contradiction.
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of Speak
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An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded,…
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The act of uttering.
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The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.
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To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…
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To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…
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To make a speech; to harangue.
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To make a speech; to harangue.
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To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
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To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
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The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.
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To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.
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The last part of anything; close; termination; end.
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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…
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of End
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The act of introducing, or bringing to notice.
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A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of e…
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A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or aut…
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A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises.
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To aim; to direct.
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The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.
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Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, artic…
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The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.
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