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ttered with articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words. Music which is inarticulate poesy. Dryden.

Not articulated; not jointed or connected by a joint.

In an inarticulate manner. Hammond.

The state or quality of being inarticulate.

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct. The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. Wordsworth.

The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.

To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals. The young ravens which cry. Ps. cxlvii. 9. In a cowslip's bell I lie There I couch when owls do cry. Shak. To cry on or upon, to call upon the name of; to beseech."No longer on Saint Denis will we cry." Shak. -- To cry out. (a) To exclaim; to vociferate; to scream; to clamor.…

Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.

To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls. Dryden.

To speak rapidly and inarticulately. Shak.

Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon. He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go; All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to known. Drayton. Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with. Hawthorne.

imes of derisive laughter; or sometimes it is equivalent to "Well, it is so." Ha-has, and inarticulate hootings of satirical rebuke. Carlyle.

To make an inarticulate sound, like h'm, through the nose in the process of speaking, from embarrassment or a affectation; to hem.

Inarticulateness. Chesterfield.

The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants.

ping disease, the person affected performing various involuntary actions and making rapid inarticulate ejaculations in imitation of the actions and words of another person.

To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a grumbling indistinct manner, indicating discontent or displeasure; to mutter. Peace, you mumbling fool. Shak. A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself. Otway.…

Low; indistinct; inarticulate. -- Mum"bling*ly, adv.

in vomiting. [Written also reach.] Beloved Julia, hear me still beseeching! (Here he grew inarticulate with retching.) Byron.