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Word Meanings - VOICELESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd. Voiceless stop , a consonant made with no audible sound except in the transition to or from another sound; a surd mute, as p, t, k. -- Voice"less*ly, adv. -- Voice"less*ness, n. (more info)

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Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd. Voiceless stop , a consonant made with no audible sound except in the transition to or from another sound; a surd mute, as p, t, k. -- Voice"less*ly, adv. -- Voice"less*ness, n. (more info) 1. Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb. I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword. Byron.

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  • STILLY
    Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
  • STILLBIRTH
    The birth of a dead fetus.
  • 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.
  • STILLSTAND
    A standstill. Shak.
  • STILLING
    A stillion.
  • STILLAGE
    A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.
  • STILLION
    A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.
  • STILLROOM
    1. A room for distilling. 2. An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept. Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for action. Dickens.
  • STILL-HUNT
    A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. -- Still"-hunt`er, n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n.
  • STILLATORY
    1. An alembic; a vessel for distillation. Bacon. 2. A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed. Dr. H. More. Sir H. Wotton.
  • STILL-CLOSING
    Ever closing. "Still-clothing waters." Shak.
  • STILLATITIOUS
    Falling in drops; drawn by a still.
  • SILENTIARY
    One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secre
  • STILL-BURN
    To burn in the process of distillation; as, to still-burn brandy.
  • STILLICIDE
    A continual falling or succession of drops; rain water falling from the eaves. Bacon.
  • SILENT
    Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable." 5. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient. Cause . . . silent, virtueless, and dead. Sir W. Raleigh. Silent partner. See Dormant partner, under Dormant. Syn. -- Mute;
  • TACITURNITY
    Habilual silence, or reserve in speaking. The cause of Addison's taciturnity was a natural diffidence in the company of strangers. V. Knox. The taciturnity and the short answers which gave so much offense. Macaulay.
  • TACITURN
    Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak. -- Tac"i*turn*ly, adv. Syn. -- Silent; reserved. Taciturn, Silent. Silent has reference to the act; taciturn, to the habit. A man may be silent from circumstances; he is taciturn
  • SILENTIOUS
    Habitually silent; taciturn; reticent.
  • STILLER
    One who stills, or quiets.
  • INSTILL
    To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
  • PISTILLIFEROUS
    Pistillate.
  • DISTILLABLE
    Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
  • DISTILLATION
    The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
  • FINESTILLER
    One who finestills.
  • INSTILLATOR
    An instiller.
  • PISTILLATION
    The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. Sir T. Browne.
  • STONE-STILL
    As still as a stone. Shak.
  • DISTILLATORY
    Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n.
  • INSTILLER
    One who instills. Skelton.
  • POSTILLATOR
    One who postillates; one who expounds the Scriptures verse by verse.
  • STOCK-STILL
    Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still. His whole work stands stock-still. Sterne.

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