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Monosyllable :: Monosyllable (n.) A word of one syllable.

Oxytone :: Oxytone (a.) Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable..

Postfix :: Postfix (v. t.) To annex; specifically (Gram.), to add or annex, as a letter, syllable, or word, to the end of another or principal word; to suffix..

Systole :: Systole (n.) The shortening of the long syllable.

Proceleusmatic :: Proceleusmatic (n.) A foot consisting of four short syllables.

Anacrusis :: Anacrusis (n.) A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.

Circumflex :: Circumflex (n.) A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.

Ictus :: Ictus (n.) The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf. Arsis.

Charade :: Charade (n.) A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations..

Dodecasyllable :: Dodecasyllable (n.) A word consisting of twelve syllables.

Octosyllable :: Octosyllable (n.) A word of eight syllables.

Dissyllabic :: Dissyllabic (a.) Consisting of two syllables only; as, a dissyllabic foot in poetry..

Penultimate :: Penultimate (a.) Last but one; as, the penultimate syllable, the last syllable but one of a word..

Trochee :: Trochee (n.) A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus..

Mi :: Mi (n.) A syllable applied to the third tone of the scale of C, i. e., to E, in European solmization, but to the third tone of any scale in the American system..

Euphony :: Euphony (n.) A pleasing or sweet sound; an easy, smooth enunciation of sounds; a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear..

Bacchius :: Bacchius (n.) A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short..

Accent :: Accent (n.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.

Paragoge :: Paragoge (n.) The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without..

Biliteral :: Biliteral (n.) A word, syllable, or root, consisting of two letters..

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