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To utter; to articulate. The student should be able to enounce these [sounds] independently. A. M. Bell.

To make distinctly audible; to utter articulately; to pronounce; as, to enunciate a word distinctly.

The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.

To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls. Dryden.

To speak rapidly and inarticulately. Shak.

Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon. He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go; All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to known. Drayton. Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with. Hawthorne.

n; sockas, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates.

es of derisive laughter; or sometimes it is equivalent to "Well, it is so." Ha-has, and inarticulate hootings of satirical rebuke. Carlyle.

To make an inarticulate sound, like h'm, through the nose in the process of speaking, from embarrassment or a affectation; to hem.

by the hyomandibular, or upper part of the hyoid arch, as in fishes, instead of directly articulated with the skull as in mammals; -- said of the skull.

Inarticulateness. Chesterfield.

Persistent portions of a calyx or corolla; also, leaves which do not disarticulate from the stem, and hence remain for a long time.

To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate. The fingers are jointed together for motion. Ray.

Having joints; articulated; full of nodes; knotty; as, a jointed doll; jointed structure. "The jointed herbage." J. Philips. -- Joint"ed*ly, adv.

Articulated, as a consonant, mainly by the lips, as b, p, m, w.

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

ng disease, the person affected performing various involuntary actions and making rapid inarticulate ejaculations in imitation of the actions and words of another person.

of bacteria, characterized by having their filaments very long, slender, and indistinctly articulated.

A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts. Chaucer.

An order of brachiopods, in which the valves of shell are not articulated by a hinge. It includes the Lingula, Discina, and allied forms. [Written also Lyopoma.]