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Word Meanings - HOARSENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.

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  • COLLECTIVENESS
    A state of union; mass.
  • COLLECTEDLY
    Composedly; coolly.
  • COLLECTIBLE
    Capable of being collected.
  • SOUNDER
    One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
  • MUCUS
    A viscid fluid secreted by mucous membranes, which it serves to moisten and protect. It covers the lining membranes of all the cavities which open externally, such as those of the mouth, nose, lungs, intestinal canal, urinary passages, etc.
  • COLLECTIVISM
    The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
  • COLLECTIVELY
    In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
  • SOUNDLESS
    Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
  • VOCALIST
    A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.
  • SWELLTOAD
    A swellfish.
  • SOUNDLY
    In a sound manner.
  • SOUNDNESS
    The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
  • VOCALLY
    1. In a vocal manner; with voice; orally; with audible sound. 2. In words; verbally; as, to express desires vocally.
  • VOCALIZATION
    1. The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized. 2. The formation and utterance of vocal sounds.
  • VOCALITY
    1. The quality or state of being vocal; utterableness; resonance; as, the vocality of the letters. 2. The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character.
  • SOUNDING BALLOON
    An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aƫronautic purposes.
  • SOUND-BOARD
    A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
  • COLLECTORATE
    The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
  • SWELL
    1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. 2. To increase in
  • COLLECTEDNESS
    A collected state of the mind; self-possession.
  • HIGH-SOUNDING
    Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
  • RESOUND
    resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
  • UNIVOCALLY
    In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
  • INVOICE
    A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed. Wharton. 2. The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large
  • UPSWELL
    To swell or rise up.
  • MISSOUND
    To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
  • MISRECOLLECT
    To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects. Hitchcock.
  • UNEQUIVOCAL
    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.
  • UNSWELL
    To sink from a swollen state; to subside. Chaucer.
  • HEARTSWELLING
    Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.

 

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