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To utter; to pronounce. [Obs.] "Foun-der-ed; prolate it right." B. Jonson.

The act of prolating or pronouncing; utterance; pronunciation. [Obs.] Ray.

To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.

One who pronounces, utters, or declares; also, a pronouncing book.

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.

Uttering confidently; dogmatical. [Obs.] Bacon.

tural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency. "A propensity to utter blasphemy." Macaulay.

To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come. Matt. xv. 7.

One who protests; one who utters a solemn declaration. Shak.

The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.

To write or utter proverbs. [R.]

One who utters falsehoods; a liar.

To utter, or put into circulation; as, to publish counterfeit paper. [U.S.] To publish a will (Law), to acknowledge it before the witnesses as the testator's last will and testament.

To utter a low, murmuring, continued sound, as a cat does when pleased. [Written also purr.]

Any species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis) as, the banded purple (B. arthemis). See Illust. under Ursula.

To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.

A door, shutter, or the like, having four folds.

Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument

Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, quoth I. quoth he. "Let me not live, quoth he." Shak.

To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence. [Obs. or Scot.] Foxe.