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together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to range in it after harvest. Cowell.

hapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes. The secret of those old shapers died with them. Lowell.

rolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is…

sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, â, ê, î, ô, û, always are.

em for their sibilancy, he who wrote . . . verses that hiss like Medusa's head in wrath. Lowell.

Undiscoverable to sight. Hidden in their own sightproof bush. Lowell.

To liken; to compare; as, to similize a person, thing, or act. Lowell.

Not deeper than the skin; hence, superficial. Lowell.

a hand. Hoyle. To slam to, to shut or close with a slam. "He slammed to the door." W. D. Howells.

Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. -- Slen"der*ly, adv. -- Slen"der*ness, n.

Snuff. [Obs.] Howell.

A sudden severe interval or spell; -- applied to the weather; as, a cold snap. Lowell.

One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager. Cowell.

A custom of tenants to grind corn at the lord's mill. Cowell.

Relaxed; open or readily opened. [R.] "The bowels must be kept soluble." Dunglison. Soluble glass. (Chem.) See under Glass.

breath sound; intonated; voiced; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- sid of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate. -- n.

To compose sonnets. Lowell.

Yielding sound; characterized by sound; vocal; sonant; as, the vowels are sonorous.

worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. Howell. To sophisticate the understanding. Southey. Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine. M. Arnold. They purchase but sophisticated ware. Dryden.

A heavy fall. [Prov. Eng.] Hallowell.