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in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself. Thine own lips testify against thee. Jeb xv. 6.

To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers came. Pope.

To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.

Having many articulations or joints.

A letter which represents no sound; a silent letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k, t.

To utter with imperfect articulations, or with a low voice; as, to mutter threats. Shak.

With a low voice and indistinct articulation; in a muttering manner.

The large process at the proximal end of the ulna which projects behind the articulation with the humerus and forms the bony prominence of the elbow.

The art of correct articulation; voice training.

The distinct articulation of the sounds of a patient's voice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity.

: (1) Verbal signs, which stand for entire words; (2) Syllabic signs, which stand for the articulations of which words are composed; (3) Alphabetic signs, or letters, which represent the elementary sounds into which the syllable can be resolved. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

Having a plane surface; as, a planiform, gliding, or arthrodial articulation.

Plurality of sounds and articulations expressed by the same vocal sign.

The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation.

The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation.

connection with, or relation to, the scapula or the shoulder; as, the scapulo- clavicular articulation, the articulation between the scapula and clavicle.

A form of articulation in which one bone is received into a groove or slit in another.

The tendency to separate readily into parts by spurious articulations, as the pods of tick trefoil.

The line of union, or seam, in an immovable articulation, like those between the bones of the skull; also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.

An articulation formed by intervening cartilage; as, the pubic symphysis.