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A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates. Antennæ and other appendages used for feeling. Carpenter.

Of or pertaining to the Articulata; articulate.

One of the segments of an articulated appendage. Articles of Confederation, the compact which was first made by the original thirteen States of the United States. They were adopted March 1, 1781, and remained the supreme law until March, 1789. -- Articles of impeachment, an instrument which, in cases of impeachment, p…

In an articular or an articulate manner.

A sound made by the vocal organs; an articulate utterance or an elementary sound, esp. a consonant.

One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.

The ankle bone, or hock bone; the bone of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia at the ankle.

Having the mandibular arch articulated directly to the cranium, as in the skulls of the Amphibia.

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

Pertaining to a capitulum; as, the capitular process of a vetebra, the process which articulates with the capitulum of a rib.

A genus of flowerless plants, having articulated stems and whorled branches. They flourish in wet places.

To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct. The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. Wordsworth.

The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.

An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound.

Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated. Continuous brake (Railroad), a brake which is attached to each car a train, and can be caused to operate in all the cars simultaneously from a point on any car or on the engine. -- Continuous impost. See Impost.

To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals. The young ravens which cry. Ps. cxlvii. 9. In a cowslip's bell I lie There I couch when owls do cry. Shak. To cry on or upon, to call upon the name of; to beseech."No longer on Saint Denis will we cry." Shak. -- To cry out. (a) To exclaim; to vociferate; to scream; to clamor.…

Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath.

One who disarticulates and prepares skeletons.

Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.

Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes. To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures. Hooker.