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To make a sound of snapping. Wiseman.

eath of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything. The dead man's knell Is there scarce asked for who. Shak. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. Gray.

To be united closely; to grow together; as, broken bones will in time knit and become sound. To knit up, to wind up; to conclude; to come to a close. "It remaineth to knit up briefly with the nature and compass of the seas." [Obs.] Holland.

To sound, as a bell; to knell. Shak. For a departed being's soul The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll. Byron.

abet of sixteen letters was called kyriologic, because it represented the pure elementary sounds. See Curiologic. [Written also curiologic and kuriologic.]

A letter or character representing an articulation or sound formed or uttered chiefly with the lips, as b, p, w.

of being labial; as, the labialism of an articulation; conversion into a labial, as of a sound which is different in another language. J. Peile.

A labiodental sound or letter.

A labionasal sound or letter.

A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice.

An imperfect enunciation of the letter r, in which it sounds like l.

To beat soundly; to thrash. [Obs. or Low] Beau. & Fl.

A defect in pronunciation of the letter l when doubled, which consists in giving it a sound as if followed by y, similar to that of the letters lli in billion.

or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth.

To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue. I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag. Tennyson.

To beat or flog soundly. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Forby.

The sound of the voice as heard through a stethoscope when the latter is placed upon the larynx.

p of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter. Queen Hecuba laughed that her eyes ran o'er. Shak. He laugheth that winneth. Heywood's Prov.

ges, probably as early as the 3d century b. c. , often called the first Lautverschiebung, sound shifting, or consonant shifting. (b) A somewhat similar set of changes taking place in the High German dialects (less fully in modern literary German) from the 6th to the 8th century, known as the second Lautverschiebung, th…

A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea.