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To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.

ual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate. It hath no larynx . . . to qualify the sound. Sir T. Browne.

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

To be silent, as a letter; to have no sound. M. Stuart.

Not sounded; silent; as, y is quiescent in "day" and "say."

ide to Pronunciation, §§ 178, 179, and 250-254. "R is the dog's letter and hurreth in the sound." B. Jonson.

dical stress (Elocution), force of utterance falling on the initial part of a syllable or sound. -- Radical vessels (Anat.), minute vessels which originate in the substance of the tissues.

An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of luminous or thermal rays. It is essentially the same as the photophone.

An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying the normal respiratory sounds. See Rhonchus.

To fill or compact by pounding or driving. A ditch . . . was filled with some sound materials, and rammed to make the foundation solid. Arbuthnot.

To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher. Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes! Shak.

vely: To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language; as, some sounds rasp the ear; his insults rasped my temper.

Like a rasp, or the sound made by a rasp; grating. R. D. Blackmore.

The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse.

To cause to make a ratting or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.

A toy that makes a rattle sound; a rattle.

e a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp ratting sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the south (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang. Ground rattlesnake (Zoöl.), a small ra…

Harshness of sound; rough utterance; hoarseness; as, the raucity of a trumpet, or of the human voice.

Rebellowing; resounding loudly. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

To make whole again; a renew; to restore to integrity or soundness. The English nation seems obliterated. What could redintegrate us again Coleridge.