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owed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous. "Animated sounds." Pope. "Animated bust." Gray. "Animated descriptions." Lewis.

An initial sound, as of a word or syllable.

a combination of letters, employed in spelling a word, but in the pronunciation having no sound. -- Aph*thon"gal, a.

To ply; to move. [R.] I heard the sound of an oar applying swiftly through the water. T. Moore.

Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery. Celestial Dian, goddess argentine. Shak.

A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom. Totten.

Rustling in arms; resounding with arms. [Obs.]

intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words. Total changes of party and articulate opinion. Carlyle.

With distinct utterance of the separate sounds.

The utterance of the elementary sounds of a language by the appropriate movements of the organs, as in pronunciation; as, a distinct articulation.

Not sounding or sounded. [R.] C. C. Felton.

Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. [Archaic] "An asper sound." Bacon.

Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity.

To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

Pronounced with the h sound or with audible breath. But yet they are not aspirate, i. e., with such an aspiration as h. Holder.

ing; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound. If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of breathing. Wilkins.

A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

keness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. To aspire to an assimilation with God. Dr. H. More. The assimilation of gases and vapors. Sir J. Herschel.

To remove; to put off. [Obs.] She soundly slept, and careful thoughts did quite assoil. Spenser.

Resemblance of sound. "The disagreeable assonance of Steevens.