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gulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.

Without accent.

One who sings the leading part; the director or leader. [Obs.]

Capable of being accented.

Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

The quality of being accentual.

In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.

To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

Act of accentuating; applications of accent. Specifically (Eccles. Mus.),

shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.

One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.

ee syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (as, h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet''ic.

A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.

A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented; the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d, and in English in-ter-vene, are examples of anapests.

The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire. New Eng. Dict.

That elevation of voice now called metrical accentuation, or the rhythmic accent.

A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. Hallam.…

Unaccented; as, an atonic syllable.

Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.

Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.