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Appulse
In all consonants there is an appulse of the organs.
Aspirate
But yet they are not aspirate, i. e., with such an aspiration as h.
Brace
The laxness of the tympanum, when it has lost its brace or tension.
Change
Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing.
Character
It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye.
Copy
Let him first learn to write, after a copy, all the letters.
Critical
It is submitted to the judgment of more critical ears to direct and determine what is graceful and what is not.
Discontinue
They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it.
Fall
The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner.
Footing
In ascent, every step gained is a footing and help to the next.
Formal
Of [the sounds represented by] letters, the material part is breath and voice; the formal is constituted by the motion and figure of the organs of speech.
Interchange
The interchanges of light and darkness.
Intervention
Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane.
Intromit
Glass in the window intromits light, without cold.
Listen
When we have occasion to listen, and give a more particular attention to some sound, the tympanum is drawn to a more than ordinary tension.
Monition
We have no visible monition of . . . other periods, such as we have of the day by successive light and darkness.
Speech
There is none comparable to the variety of instructive expressions by speech, wherewith man alone is endowed for the communication of his thoughts.
Ternary
Some in ternaries, some in pairs, and some single.
Undulate
Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated and undulated.
Vibrate
Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated or undulated, may . . . impress a swift, tremulous motion.
Vocalize
It is one thing to give an impulse to breath alone, another thing to vocalize that breath.