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A double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables.

To form into two syllables. Ogilvie.

To form into two syllables; to dyssyllabify.

o running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.

A syllable attached to the first tone of the major diatonic scale for the purpose of solmization, or solfeggio. It is the first of the seven syllables used by the Italians as manes of musical tones, and replaced, for the sake of euphony, the syllable Ut, applied to the note C. In England and America the same syllables…

A foot of five syllables (usually

Having twelve syllables.

The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.

To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.

The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.

The final syllable or letter of a word; the part joined to the stem. See 3d Case, 5. Ending day, day of death. Chaucer.

To utter words or syllables articulately.

A foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.

ing or sweet sound; an easy, smooth enunciation of sounds; a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.

A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath. While explectives their feeble aid to join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. Pope.

A syllable applied to the fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solmization.

s (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line.

A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent.

Consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse.

to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element) or the brief initial element, in a cla…