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Misspeech :: Misspeech (n.) Wrong speech.

Phonograph :: Phonograph (n.) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration

Speech :: Speech (n.) A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect..

Form :: Form (n.) The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms..

Pauciloquent :: Pauciloquent (a.) Uttering few words; brief in speech.

Declaim :: Declaim (v. i.) To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week..

Declamation :: Declamation (n.) The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students..

Silent :: Silent (a.) Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.

Altiloquence :: Altiloquence (n.) Lofty speech; pompous language.

Stump :: Stump (v. t.) To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump, under Stump, n..

Phrase :: Phrase (n.) A mode or form of speech; the manner or style in which any one expreses himself; diction; expression.

Grammar :: Grammar (n.) The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use aud application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing..

Articulate :: Articulate (a.) Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words..

Cant :: Cant (n.) The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy..

Flat :: Flat (superl.) Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition..

Decorum :: Decorum (n.) Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable..

Pleasant-tongued :: Pleasant-tongued (a.) Of pleasing speech.

Monologue :: Monologue (n.) A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in monologue..

Dotery :: Dotery (n.) The acts or speech of a dotard; drivel.

Follow :: Follow (v. t.) To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument..

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