a. [ Pref. deca- + syllabic: cf. F. décasyllabique, décasyllable. ] Having, or consisting of, ten syllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. dissyllabique. See Dissylable. ] Consisting of two syllables only; as, a dissyllabic foot in poetry. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A forming into two syllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Dissyllable + -fly. ] To form into two syllables. Ogilvie. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To form into two syllables; to dissyllabify. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. dissyllabe, L. disyllabus, adj., of two syllables, fr. Gr. &unr_;; di- = di`s- twice + &unr_; syllable. See Syllable. ] A word of two syllables; as, pa-per. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; twelve + E. syllabic. ] Having twelve syllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A word consisting of twelve syllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to a line of eleven syllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. hendecasyllabus, Gr. &unr_; eleven-syllabled; &unr_; eleven + &unr_; syllable: cf. F. hendécasyllabe. ] A metrical line of eleven syllables. J. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. impar unequal + E. syllabic: cf. F. imparisyllabique. ] (Gram.) Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. monosyllabique. ] Being a monosyllable, or composed of monosyllables; as, a monosyllabic word; a monosyllabic language. -- Mon`o*syl*lab"ic*al*ly adv. [1913 Webster]

n. The state of consisting of monosyllables, or having a monosyllabic form; frequent occurrence of monosyllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. monosyllabus of one syllable, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. monosyllabe. See Mono-, Syllable. ] A word of one syllable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Formed into, or consisting of, monosyllables. Cleveland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Multi- + syllable. ] A word of many syllables; a polysyllable. [ R. ] -- Mul`ti*syl*lab"ic a. [1913 Webster]

{ } a. [ L. octosyllabus. See Octo-, and Syllable. ] Consisting of or containing eight syllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Octosyllabic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A word of eight syllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Pari- + syllabic, -ical: cf. F. parisyllabique. ] Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;; poly`s many + &unr_; syllable: cf. F. polysyllabique. ] Pertaining to a polysyllable; containing, or characterized by, polysyllables; consisting of more than three syllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Polysyllabism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Polysyllabism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being polysyllabic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Poly- + syllable. ] A word of many syllables, or consisting of more syllables than three; -- words of less than four syllables being called monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Psyllæ [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; a flea. ] (Zool.) Any leaping plant louse of the genus Psylla, or family Psyllidæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }Having four syllables; of or pertaining to quadrisyllables; as, a quadrisyllabic word. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Quadri- + syllable: cf. F. quadrisyllabe. ] A word consisting of four syllables. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Quinque- + syllable. ] A word of five syllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Septi- + syllable. ] A word of seven syllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Sex- + syllabic. ] Having six syllables. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sex- + syllable. ] A word of six syllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Syllabaria [ NL. ] A syllabary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters. S. W. Williams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] Syllable. [ R. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. syllabique. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a syllable or syllables; as, syllabic accent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Consisting of a syllable or syllables; as, a syllabic augment. “The syllabic stage of writing.” Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a syllabic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Syllabicated p. pr. & vb. n. Syllabicating. ] To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of forming syllables; the act or method of dividing words into syllables. See Guide to Pron., §275. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Syllabify. ] Same as Syllabication. Rush. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syllabification depends not on mere force, but on discontinuity of force. H. Sweet. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Syllabified p. pr. & vb. n. Syllabifying ] [ L. syllaba syllable + -fy. ] To form or divide into syllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The expressing of the sounds of a language by syllables, rather than by an alphabet or by signs for words. I. Taylor (The Alphabet). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who forms or divides words into syllables, or is skilled in doing this. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To syllabify. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. sillable, OF. sillabe, F. syllabe, L. syllaba, Gr. &unr_; that which is held together, several letters taken together so as to form one sound, a syllable, fr. &unr_; to take together; &unr_; with + &unr_; to take; cf. Skr. labh, rabh. Cf. Lemma, Dilemma. ] 1. An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reenforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, §275. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language. [ 1913 Webster ]

Withouten vice [ i. e. mistake ] of syllable or letter. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before any syllable of the law of God was written. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who dare speak
One syllable against him? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Syllabub. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. E. Syllabuses L. Syllabi [ L., fr. the same source as E. syllable. ] 1. A compendium containing the heads of a discourse, and the like; an abstract. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) The headnote of a reported case; the brief statement of the points of law determined prefixed to a reported case. The opinion controls the syllabus, the latter being merely explanatory of the former. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. tétrasyllabique. ] Consisting of, or having, four syllables; quadrisyllabic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Tetra- + syllable: cf. Gr. &unr_; of four syllables. ] A word consisting of four syllables; a quadrisyllable. [ 1913 Webster ]