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Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See Intone, v. t.

Any composition of vocal music appropriate to the opening of church services.

The vertical side of any opening, as a door or fireplace; hence, less properly, any narrow vertical surface of wall, as the of a chimney-breast or of a pier, as distinguished from its face. Gwilt.

A notch or opening.

A name of the 100th Psalm; -- so called from its opening word in the Latin version.

Treacherous; betraying. Judas hole, a peephole or secret opening for spying. -- Judas kiss, a deceitful and treacherous kiss. -- Judas tree (Bot.), a leguminous tree of the genus Cercis, with pretty, rose-colored flowers in clusters along the branches. Judas is said to have hanged himself on a tree of this genus (C.…

The mouth or opening of an oven or kiln. Shak.

by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden.

A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line.

hey fold up out of sight and allow the kitchen to be made a part of the adjoining room by opening folding doors.

om in religious rites or as a men's dormitory. It is commonly lighted and entered from an opening in the roof.

he name now generally given to the projecting molding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediæval architecture. It always has a Arch. Pub. Soc.

Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as oo (food), o (old), etc., and as eu and u in French, and ö, ü in German. See Guide to Pronunciation,

The modification of an articulation by contraction of the lip opening.

To modify by contraction of the lip opening.

The folds of integument at the opening of the vulva.

A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.

The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.

e larger teeth on the palate (see Illust. of Cyclostomi). There are seven small branchial openings on each side. [Written also lamper eel, lamprel, and lampron.]

ument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.