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The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization.

A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.

The quality or state of being vocal; utterableness; resonance; as, the vocality of the letters.

The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.

To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to. It is one thing to give an impulse to breath alone, another thing to vocalize that breath. Holder.

In a vocal manner; with voice; orally; with audible sound.

The quality of being vocal; vocality.

particular state, business, or profession. What can be urged for them who not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness make themselves ridiculous Dryden.

The vocative case.

Having yellow fruit.

Bearing fruit which becomes hard or woody.

ch style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.

A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.

At the same time; simultaneously. [Obs.] Abreast therewith began a convocation. Fuller.

ding to its usual acceptation. My words, in common acceptation, Could never give this provocation. Gay.

infectious disease of cattle and man due to the presence of Actinomyces bovis. It causes local suppurating tumors, esp. about the jaw. Called also lumpy jaw or big jaw. -- Ac`ti*no*my*cot"ic (#), a.

An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. Jacobs.

The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like. Bouvier.

the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor." Sheridan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.

A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.