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Sweetness of speech.

SPEECHLESS
1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
SPEECHIFYING
The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
SPEECHFUL
Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
SPEECHIFY
To make a speech; to harangue.
SWEETNESS
The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
SPEECHIFICATION
The act of speechifying.
SPEECHMAKER
One who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a public assembly.
SPEECH
speak; akin to D. spraak speech, OHG. sprahha, G. sprache, Sw. spr, 1. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking. There is none comparable to the
SPEECHIFIER
One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer. G. Eliot.
SPEECHING
The act of making a speech.
VISIBLE SPEECH
A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them.
INTERSPEECH
A speech interposed between others. Blount.
FORESPEECH
A preface. Sherwood.
BY-SPEECH
An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point. "To quote by-speeches." Hooker.
MISSPEECH
Wrong speech.