n. (Phon.) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part;
☞ The vanish is included by Mr. Bell under the general term glide. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
The horse vanished . . . out of sight. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
Go; vanish into air; away! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
Gliding from the twilight past to vanish among realities. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. & n. from Vanish, v. [ 1913 Webster ]
Vanishing fraction (Math.),
Vanishing line (Persp.),
Vanishing point (Persp.),
Vanishing stress (Phon.),
n. A vanishing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]