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th utterance; full of voice, or voices. To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song. Milton.

vowel sounds; consisting of the vowel sounds. Earle. The Gaelic language being uncommonly vocalic. Sir W. Scott.

The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization.

A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.

The quality or state of being vocal; utterableness; resonance; as, the vocality of the letters.

The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.

To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to. It is one thing to give an impulse to breath alone, another thing to vocalize that breath. Holder.

In a vocal manner; with voice; orally; with audible sound.

The quality of being vocal; vocality.

- De*vo`cal*i*za"tion, n. If we take a high vowel, such as (i) [= nearly i of bit], and devocalize it, we obtain a hiss which is quite distinct enough to stand for a weak (jh). H. Sweet.

ite feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected; as, his actions are equivocal. "Equivocal repentances." Milton.

In an equivocal manner.

The state of being equivocal.

Situated between vowels; immediately preceded and followed by vowel sounds, as, p in occupy, d in idea, etc.

Signifying many different things; of manifold meaning; equivocal. "An ambiguous multivocal word." Coleridge. -- n.

Not vocal; destitute of tone. -- n.

Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.

Same as Subtonic.

Not equivocal; not doubtful; not ambiguous; evident; sincere; plain; as, unequivocal evidence; unequivocal words. -- Un`e*quiv"o*cal*ly, adv. -- Un`e*quiv"o*cal*ness, n.

Having one meaning only; -- contrasted with equivocal.