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Having the umlaut; as, umlauted vowels. There is so natural connection between umlauted forms and plurality. Earle.

murdered, no geld, or fine, should be paid, or composition made by him that killed him. Cowell. Burrill.

ical. "Unpractical questions." H. James. I like him none the less for being unpractical. Lowell.

To make unreal; to idealize. His fancy . . . unrealizes everything at a touch. Lowell.

The 20th letter (U, u) of the Greek alphabet, a vowel having originally the sound of oo as in room, becoming before the 4th century b. c. that French u or Ger. ü. Its equivalent in English is u or y.

To render urban, or urbane; to refine; to polish. Howell.

The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael. Cowell. The marriage was celebrated and Canterbury, and in the utas of St. Hilary next ensuing she was crowned. Holinshed.

inguished from the benchers, who are sometimes permitted to plead within the bar. [Eng.] Cowell.

he Latin alphabet, where it was used both as a consonant (about like English w) and as a vowel. The Latin derives it from it from a form (V) of the Greek vowel UPSILON (see Y), this Greek letter being either from the same Semitic letter as the digamma F (see F), or else added by the Greeks to the alphabet which they to…

An indefinite expanse. [R.] The gray vague of unsympathizing sea. Lowell.

The brief terminal part of vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part; as, a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill, o as in old with a vanish of oo as in foot. Rush.

Of or pertaining to hunting; used in hunting. [R.] " Venatical pleasure." Howell.

A griping of the bowels.

Vespertine. Lowell.

To deprive of the viscera, or entrails; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also,

Of or pertaining to vowel sounds; consisting of the vowel sounds. Earle. The Gaelic language being uncommonly vocalic. Sir W. Scott.

The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character.

To practice singing on the vowel sounds.

the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; -- distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, etc., and also whisper.