a. [ L. ab + sonans, p. pr. of sonare to sound. ] Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant. “Absonant to nature.” Quarles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. altus high + sonans, p. pr. of sonare to sound. ] High-sounding; lofty or pompous. Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. armisonus; arma arms + sonare (p. pr. sonans) to sound. ] Rustling in arms; resounding with arms. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. a- not + sonant. ] Not sounding or sounded. [ R. ] C. C. Felton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. assonans, p. pr. of assonare to sound to, to correspond to in sound; ad + sonare to sound, sonus sound: cf. F. assonant. See Sound. ] 1. Having a resemblance of sounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Pros.) Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Assonant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. consonans, -antis; p. pr. of consonare to sound at the same time, agree; con- + sonare to sound: cf. F. consonnant. See Sound to make a noise. ] 1. Having agreement; congruous; consistent; according; -- usually followed by with or to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each one pretends that his opinion . . . is consonant to the words there used. Bp. Beveridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

That where much is given there shall be much required is a thing consonant with natural equity. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having like sounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consonant words and syllables. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) harmonizing together; accordant; as, consonant tones, consonant chords. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Of or pertaining to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants. [ 1913 Webster ]

No Russian whose dissonant consonant name
Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame. T. Moore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. consonans, -antis. ] An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consonants are divided into various classes, as mutes, spirants, sibilants, nasals, semivowels, etc. All of them are sounds uttered through a closer position of the organs than that of a vowel proper, although the most open of them, as the semivowels and nasals, are capable of being used as if vowels, and forming syllables with other closer consonants, as in the English feeble taken All the consonants excepting the mutes may be indefinitely, prolonged in utterance without the help of a vowel, and even the mutes may be produced with an aspirate instead of a vocal explosion. Vowels and consonants may be regarded as the two poles in the scale of sounds produced by gradual approximation of the organ, of speech from the most open to the closest positions, the vowel being more open, the consonant closer; but there is a territory between them where the sounds produced partake of the qualities of both. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “A consonant is the result of audible friction, squeezing, or stopping of the breath in some part of the mouth (or occasionally of the throath.) The main distinction between vowels and consonants is, that while in the former the mouth configuration merely modifies the vocalized breath, which is therefore an essential element of the vowels, in consonants the narrowing or stopping of the oral passage is the foundation of the sound, and the state of the glottis is something secondary.” H. Sweet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of a consonant; pertaining to consonants. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To change into, or use as, a consonant. “The vowel is consonantized, that is, made closer in position.” Peile. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a consonant, consistent, or congruous manner; agreeably. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or condition of being consonant, agreeable, or consistent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dissonans, -antis, p. pr. of dissonare to disagree in sound, be discordant; dis- + sonare to sound: cf. F. dissonant. See Sonant. ] 1. Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. [ 1913 Webster ]

With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, -- with from or to. “Anything dissonant to truth.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

What can be dissonant from reason and nature than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman? Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. Of the same or like sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Horrisonous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inconsonans. See In- not, and Consonant. ] Not consonant or agreeing; inconsistent; discordant. -- In*con"so*nant*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Not sonant. -- n. A nonsonant or nonvocal consonant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. resonans, p. pr. of resonare to resound: cf. F. résonnant. See Resound. ] 1. Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through every hour of the golden morning, the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Elec.) Adjusted as to dimensions (as an electric circuit) so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adv. In a resonant manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. rhonchus a snoring + sonans, p. pr. of sonare to sound. ] Making a snorting noise; snorting. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sonans, -antis, p. pr. of sonare to sound. See Sound a noise. ] 1. Of or pertaining to sound; sounding. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phonetics) Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; vocal; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- said of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate. -- n. A sonant letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incongruous; inconsistent. “A thing unconsonant.” Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Uni- + sonant. See Unison. ] Being in unison; having the same degree of gravity or acuteness; sounded alike in pitch. [ 1913 Webster ]