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

n. a resident of Arizona.
Syn. -- Arizonian [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } 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 ]

n. [ Cf. F. assonance. See Assonant. ] 1. Resemblance of sound. “The disagreeable assonance of ‘sheath' and ‘sheathed.'” Steevens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Pros.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. [ 1913 Webster ]

The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Incomplete correspondence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Assonance between facts seemingly remote. Lowell. [ 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 ]

n. [ Sp., prop. calm., fair weather, prosperity, fr. L. bonus good. ] In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income. [ Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small genus of Asian deciduous or evergreen shrubs having fragrant flowers: winter sweet.
Syn. -- genus Chimonanthus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genus of deciduous trees or shrubs: fringe tree.
Syn. -- genus Chionanthus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ , n. [ L. consonantia: cf. F. consonnance. ] 1. (Mus.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Friendship; concord. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By the consonancy of our youth. Shak.

Syn. -- Agreement; accord; consistency; unison; harmony; congruity; suitableness; agreeableness. [ 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 ]

n. [ L. dissonantia: cf. F. dissonance. ] 1. A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord. [ 1913 Webster ]

Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Want of agreement; incongruity. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Discord; dissonance. [ 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 ]

n. [ Equi- + L. sonans, p. pr. of sonare to sound: cf. F. équisonnance. See Sonant. ] (Mus.) An equal sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

‖n.; pl. L. Gonangia E. Gonangiums [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; offspring + &unr_; vessel. ] (Zool.) See Gonotheca. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

{ } n. Lack of consonance or harmony of sound, action, or thought; disagreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

prop. n. [ Iso- + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, a man, male. ] (Bot.) A genus of sapotaceous trees of India. Isonandra Gutta is the principal source of gutta-percha. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) A phenomenon resulting from quantization in the magnetic field of electrons or atoms or molecules or nuclei exposed to an external magnetic field, by which a narrow frequency band of radio waves may be absorbed and re-emitted by the object. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. (Medicine) a medical diagnostic procedure utilizing the phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance to generate images of internal parts of the body. It depends on the differential absorption of electromagnetic radiation by different types of living tissue in a magnetic field. It is complementary to X-ray imaging in that the softer tissue show more prominently in magnetic resonance images, rather than bone, as with X-rays. It is a non-invasive procedure, allowing such images to be obtained without penetration of the tissue by objects. It is abbreviated MRI. As with computerized tomography, the results are usually presented as images of sequential planar sections of that part of the body of concern to the physician. [ PJC ]

n. (Bot.) One of the Monandria. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. mo`nos alone + 'anh`r, 'andro`s, a man. ] (Bot.) A Linnaean class of plants embracing those having but a single stamen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a.; (Bot.) Same as Monandrous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to monandry; practicing monandry as a system of marriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the monandria; having but one stamen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Monandria. ] The possession by a woman of only one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with polyandry. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Mon- + Gr. 'a`nqos flower. ] (Bot.) Having but one flower; one-flowered. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. nonus ninth. ] (Chem.) One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons C9H20 of the paraffin series; -- so called because of the nine carbon atoms in the molecule. Normal nonane is a colorless volatile liquid, an ingredient of ordinary kerosene. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. (Physics) The specific absorption and re-emission of electromagnetic radiation at characteristic wavelengths by atomic nuclei in a magnetic field. It is abbreviated NMR. The wavelength of the radiation absorbed depends on the type of nucleus, the intensity of the magnetic field, and the local chemical environment in which the nucleus resides. It is the latter effect (called the chemical shift), by which atoms of specific elements in different chemical compounds show a different resonance frequency, which gives rise to the greatest utility of this phenomenon in analyzing the chemical structure of substances. Similar effects of the chemical environment permit the discrimination of different types of living tissue by virtue of their different chemical composition, thus permitting utilization of the phenomenon in medical diagnostic instruments, especially for magnetic resonance imaging. [ PJC ]

n. (Physics) The resonance absorption of a gamma ray by a nucleus identical to the nucleus that emitted the gamma ray. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Onan (Gen. xxxviii. 9): cf. F. onanisme. ] Self-pollution; masturbation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. résonance, L. resonantia an echo. ] 1. The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Acoustics) A prolongation or increase of any sound, either by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Physics) A phenomenon in which a vibration or other cyclic process (such as tide cycles) of large amplitude is produced by smaller impulses, when the frequency of the external impulses is close to that of the natural cycling frequency of the process in that system. The shattering of a glass object when impinged upon by sound of a certain frequency is one example of this phenomenon; another is the very large tides in certain basins such as that of the Bay of Fundy, which has a natural cycling frequency close to that of the tidal cycle. [ PJC ]

4. (Electronics) An electric phenomenon corresponding to that of acoustic resonance, due to the existance of certain relations of the capacity, inductance, resistance, and frequency of an alternating circuit; the tuning of a radio transmitter or receiver to send or detect waves of specific frequencies depends on this phenomenon. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

Pulmonary resonance (Med.), the sound heard on percussing over the lungs. --
Vocal resonance (Med.), the sound transmitted to the ear when auscultation is made while the patient is speaking. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Resonance. [ 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 ]

n. 1. A sound; a tune; as, to sound the tucket sonance. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality or state of being sonant. [ 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 ]