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The tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string, as of a violin.

A single, unvaried. [R.] Pope. In unison, in agreement; agreeing in tone; in concord.

hysics), stress per unit of area; intensity of stress. It is expressed in ounces, pounds, tons, etc., per square inch, square foot, or square yard, etc., or in atmospheres, or inches of mercury or water, or the like.

Dried up; withered by heat. [Obs.] "My tongue . . . unparched." Crashaw.

rbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct. But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. James iii. 8.

ntie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches. Shak. All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor.

To deprive of a tongue, or of voice. [Obs.] Fuller.

Not wormed; not having had the worm, or lytta, under the tongue cut out; -- said of a dog.

Vocal expression; articulation; speech. At length gave utterance to these words. Milton.

The relative length or duration of a tone or note, answering to quantity in prosody; thus, a quarter note [value of two eighth notes [

man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. Gov. of Tongue.

A tribe of edentates comprising the South American ant-eaters. The tongue is long, slender, exsertile, and very flexible, whence the name.

language. "A vernacular disease." Harvey. His skill the vernacular dialect of the Celtic tongue. Fuller. Which in our vernacular idiom may be thus interpreted. Pope.

h African plant of the genus Vernonia, as a deliquescent powder, and used as a mild heart tonic.

Having the qualities of a viper; malignant; venomous; as, a viperous tongue. "This viperous slander." Shak. -- Vi"per*ous*ly, adv.

voice, or voices. To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song. Milton.

t thing in woman. Shak. Thy voice is music. Shak. Join thy voice unto the angel choir. Milton.

with the glottis narrowed. Voiced stop, Voice stop (Phon.), a stopped consonant made with tone from the larynx while the mouth organs are closed at some point; a sonant mute, as b, d, g hard.

ss in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant, voluble, tongue. [Cassio,] a knave very voluble. Shak.

Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone. Atomic volume, Molecular volume (Chem.), the ratio of the atomic and molecular weights divided respectively by the specific gravity of the substance in question. -- Specific volume (Physics & Chem.), the quotient obtained by dividing unity by the specific gravit…