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egular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables.

sage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios.

os.), a meter employed by early Roman satirists, consisting of three iambics and an extra syllable followed by three trochees, as in the line: --Thê queen | wâs isn | thê kistch | ên eatîng | bread ând | honêy.

Having six syllables. Emerson.

relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short so…

Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, â, ê, î, ô, û, always are.

A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century.

To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize. Sifting the very utmost sentence and syllable. Hooker. Opportunity I here have had To try thee, sift thee. Milton. Let him but narrowly sift his ideas. I. Taylor. To sift out, to search out with care, as if by sifting.

To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.

A syllable applied in solmization to the note G, or to the fifth tone of any diatonic scale.

es do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, by which singing is taught; a singing exercise upon these syllables.

A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges.

To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter. I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightest pour this conclead man out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a narrow-mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or none at all. Sh…

Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, §§ 31-35.

A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.

A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters. S. W. Williams.

Syllable. [R.] B. Jonson.

Of or pertaining to a syllable or syllables; as, syllabic accent.

To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

The act of forming syllables; the act or method of dividing words into syllables. See Guide to Pron., §275.