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, or characteristic of, a sound formed in the throat. Children are occasionally born with guttural swellings. W. Guthrie. In such a sweet, guttural accent. Landor.

The quality of being guttural; as, the gutturalism of A [in the 16th cent.] Earle.

The quality of being guttural. [R.] "The old gutturality of k." Earle.

To speak gutturally; to give a guttural sound to.

In a guttural manner.

The quality of being guttural.

ter (Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the ä sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols. This letter, in English, is used for sev…

A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.

d of every moral feeling. Goldsmith. The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals. Earle.

or opening of the throat; faucial; esp., (Phon.) produced in the fauces, as certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other languages. Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay.

Low; deep in the throat; guttural; rumbling; as,

To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound. Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life. Shak. Grunting ox (Zoöl.), the yak.

To make in the throat; to gutturalize. [R.] For which the Germans gutturize a sound. Coleridge.

A combining form denoting relation to the throat; as, gutturo- nasal, having both a guttural and a nasal character; gutturo-palatal.

a sibilant, or a dental consonant (as g in gem, c in cent, etc.) as distinguished from a guttural mute (as g in go, c in cone, etc.); -- opposed to hard.

Guttural; hoarse; having a guttural voice. "Hard, throaty words." Howell.

An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher.

Having the place of articulation on the soft palate; guttural; as, the velar consonants, such as k and hard q.

A guttural pronunciation of the letter r; a burr. See Burr, n., 6. A strange, uncouth wharling in their speech. Fuller.