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The act of forming syllables; the act or method of dividing words into syllables. See Guide to Pron., §275.

Same as Syllabication. Rush. Syllabification depends not on mere force, but on discontinuity of force. H. Sweet.

To form or divide into syllables.

The expressing of the sounds of a language by syllables, rather than by an alphabet or by signs for words. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

One who forms or divides words into syllables, or is skilled in doing this.

To syllabify. Howell.

impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reënforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciatio…

Same as Syllabub.

A compendium containing the heads of a discourse, and the like; an abstract.

Capable of being told.

Consisting of, or having, four syllables; quadrisyllabic.

A word consisting of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.

Capable of being tilled; fit for the plow; arable.

Subject to the payment of toll; as, tollable goods. Wright.

Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, "syllable" is a trisyllabic word. -- Tris`yllab"ic*al*ly, adv.

A word consisting of three syllables only; as, a-ven-ger.

Causing trouble; troublesome. [Obs.] troublable ire." Chaucer.

Not appealable; that can not be carried to a higher tribunal by appeal; as, an unappealable suit or action.

Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events.

An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.