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Vocal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Having a voice.

2. To hill or valley, fountain or fresh shade, made vocal by my song.

3. Uttered or modulated by the voice; as vocal melody; vocal prayer; vocal praise.

4. Vocal music, music made by the voice, in distinction from instrumental music; hence, music or tunes set to words, to be performed by the human voice.

Vocal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Among the Romanists, a man who has a right to vote in certain elections.

Vocal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.

2. Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody; vocal prayer.

3. Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, /poken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of certain articulate sounds.

4. Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng; sonant; intonated; voiced. See Voice, and Vowel, also Guide to Pronunciation, // 199-202.

5. Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel.

Vocal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal.

2. A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.

Vocalic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to vowel sounds; consisting of the vowel sounds.

Vocalism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization.

2. A vocalic sound.

Vocalist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.

Vocality [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Quality of being utterable by the voice; as the vocality of the letters.

Vocality [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The quality or state of being vocal; utterableness; resonance; as, the vocality of the letters.

2. The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character.

Vocalization [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.

2. The formation and utterance of vocal sounds.

Vocalize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. to form into voice; to make vocal.

2. It is one thing to give impulse to breath alone, and another to vocalize that breath.

Vocalize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to.

2. To practice singing on the vowel sounds.

Vocalized [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Made vocal; formed into voice.

Vocalized [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Vocalize

Vocalizing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Forming into voice or sound.

Vocalizing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Vocalize

Vocally [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. With voice; with an audible sound.

2. In words; as, to express desires vocally

Vocally [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. In a vocal manner; with voice; orally; with audible sound.

2. In words; verbally; as, to express desires vocally.

Vocalness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality of being vocal; vocality.