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Webster 1913 Edition


Voiceless

Voice′less

,
Adj.
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.
2.
(Phon.)
Not sounded with voice;
as, a
voiceless
consonant
; surd.
Voiceless stop
(Phon.)
,
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
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Voiceless

VOICELESS

, a vois'less. Having no voice or vote.