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A corrupt spelling and pronunciation of solder. Soft sawder, seductive praise; flattery; blarney. [Slang]

Self-denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice.

eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§22, 30.

h a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.

Sir; Mr. The English form and pronunciation for the Italian Signor and the Spanish Señor.

ciety of women united in one faith or order; sisters, collectively. "A sisterhood of holy nuns." Shak. The fair young flowers . . . a beauteous sisterhood. Bryant.

llus) which has a white crest; -- called also smee, smee duck, white merganser, and white nun.

A river flood; an overflow or inundation. Burns. Gareth in a showerful spring Stared at the spate. Tennyson.

A name given to several species of crowfoot (Ranunculus) which have spear-shaped leaves.

excluding the sibilants, as well as the nasals, liquids, and semivowels. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 197-208.

the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, §§ 31-35.

To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown. I would thou didst, So half my Egypt were submerged. Shak.

mixture of breath sound; -- a term introduced by Dr. James Rush in 1833. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§155, 199-202.

A woman who acts as chief in a convent, abbey, or nunnery; a lady superior.

hispered; aspirated; sharp; hard, as f, p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§169, 179, 180.

reënforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, §275.

mission of a definite number of different signals or calls, as in connection with hotel annunciators.

One of an order of nuns founded by Ursula Benincasa, who died in 1618.

ury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; meance; threatening; denunciation. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. Shak.

An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation. The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes. Prescott. Thunder pumper. (Zoöl.) (a) The croaker (Haploidontus grunniens). (b) The American bittern or stake-driver. -- Thunder rod, a lightning rod. [R.] -- Thunder snake. (Zoöl.) (a) The ch…