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gle impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reënforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronuncia…

A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.

A word consisting of twelve syllables.

A metrical line of eleven syllables. J. Warton.

A word of one syllable.

Formed into, or consisting of, monosyllables. Cleveland.

A word of many syllables; a polysyllable. [R.] -- Mul`ti*syl*lab"ic, a.

A word of eight syllables.

A word of many syllables, or consisting of more syllables than three; -- words of less than four syllables being called monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables.

A word consisting of four syllables. De Quincey.

A word of five syllables.

A word of seven syllables.

A word of six syllables.

A word consisting of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.

A word consisting of three syllables only; as, a-ven-ger.

To cut off. [R.] "Two syllables . . . abscinded from the rest." Johnson.

A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables.

A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.

n, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to a writing.

ed from Alcæus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.