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so that the currents of inspired and expired air cause a vibration of the uvula and soft palate, thus giving rise to a sound more or less harsh. It is usually unvoluntary, but may be produced voluntarily.

ed from coin, or hard money. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Soft mute. (Phonetics) See Media. -- Soft palate. See the Note under Palate. -- Soft ray (Zoöl.), a fin ray which is articulated and usually branched. -- Soft soap. See under Soap. -- Soft-tack, leavened bread, as distinguished from hard-tack, or ship bread. -- Soft t…

Of or pertaining to the uvula or the palate.

The operation for restoring or replacing the soft palate when it has been lost. Dunglison. -- Staph`y*lo*plas"tic, a.

The operation of uniting a cleft palate, consisting in paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft. -- Staph`y*lo*raph"ic, Staph`y*lor*rhaph"ic, a.

Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, e…

Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.

Fig.: Taste; palate. These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth. Dryden.

e anterior legs only, are eel-like in form, and have no teeth except a small patch on the palate. The external gills are persistent through life.

A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larvæ of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear.

The process of forming an artificial palate.

Suture of the palate. See Staphyloraphy.

The plastic operation for closing a fissure in the hard palate.

The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate.

Of or pertaining to a velum; esp. (Anat.) of or pertaining to the soft palate.

Curtain or covering; -- applied to various membranous partitions, especially to the soft palate. See under Palate.

adam. Shak. Send for music, And will the cooks to use their best of cunning To please the palate. Beau. & Fl. As you go, will the lord mayor . . . To attend our further pleasure presently. J. Webster.