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     #579.  Inelegance. —­ N. inelegance; stiffness &c. adj.; “unlettered
Muse” [Gray]; barbarism; slang &c. 563; solecism &c. 568; mannerism &c. (affectation) 855; euphuism[obs3]; fustian &c. 577; cacophony; words that break the teeth, words that dislocate the jaw; marinism[obs3]. 
     V. be inelegant &c. adj. 
     Adj. inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff,
cramped, formal, guinde[Fr]; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous; awkward, uncourtly[obs3], unpolished; turgid &c. 577; affected, euphuistic[obs3]; barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting; offensive to ears polite.

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     #580.  Voice. —­ N. voice; vocality[obs3]; organ, lungs, bellows; good
voice, fine voice, powerful voice &c. (loud) 404; musical voice &c. 413; intonation; tone of voice &c. (sound) 402.
     vocalization; cry &c. 411; strain, utterance, prolation[obs3];
exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis[obs3]; enunciation, articulation; articulate sound, distinctness; clearness, of articulation; stage whisper; delivery.
     accent, accentuation; emphasis, stress; broad accent, strong accent,
pure accent, native accent, foreign accent; pronunciation.
     [Word similarly pronounced] homonym.
     orthoepy[obs3]; cacoepy[obs3]; euphony &c. (melody) 413.
     gastriloquism[obs3], ventriloquism; ventriloquist; polyphonism[obs3],
polyphonist[obs3].
     [Science of voice] phonology &c. (sound) 402. 
     V. utter, breathe; give utterance, give tongue; cry &c. (shout) 411;
ejaculate, rap out; vocalize, prolate|, articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth; whisper in the ear. 
     Adj. vocal, phonetic, oral; ejaculatory, articulate, distinct,
stertorous; euphonious &c. (melodious) 413. 
     Phr. “how sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman” [Massinger]; “the
organ of the soul” [Longfellow]; “thy voice is a celestial melody” [Longfellow].

     #581.  Aphony. —­ N. aphony[obs3], aphonia[obs3]; dumbness &c. adj.;
obmutescence[obs3]; absence of voice, want of voice; dysphony[obs3]; cacoepy[obs3]; silence &c. (taciturnity) 585; raucity[obs3]; harsh voice &c. 410, unmusical voice &c. 414; falsetto, “childish treble mute”; dummy. 
     V. keep silence &c. 585; speak low, speak softly; whisper &c.
(faintness) 405.
     silence; render mute, render silent; muzzle, muffle, suppress,
smother, gag, strike dumb, dumfounder; drown the voice, put to silence, stop one’s mouth, cut one short.
     stick in the throat. 
     Adj. aphonous[obs3], dumb, mute; deafmute, deaf and dumb; mum; tongue-
tied; breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless; mute as a fish, mute as a stockfish[obs3], mute as a mackerel; silent &c. (taciturn) 585; muzzled; inarticulate, inaudible.
     croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a
raven; rough. 
     Adv. with bated breath, with the finger on the lips; sotto voce[Lat];
in a low tone, in a cracked voice, in a broken voice. 
     Phr. vox faucibus haesit [Lat][Vergil].