- A sharp nasal tone - Accentual distinction that was always nasal, going by leaders - Banjo sound - Banjo sound heard in Texas? - Guitar sound - Nasal tone - Plucked string sound
- Buzz - Continuous murmur in a hive of activity? - Low noise - Sing with closed lips - Sing without words - To make a low, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in
flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums. - To make a nasal sound, like that of the letter m prolonged,
without opening the mouth, or articulating; to mumble in monotonous
undertone; to drone.
- Applied to, or distinguishing, a speech element
consisting of tone, or proper vocal sound, not pure as in the vowels,
but dimmed and otherwise modified by some kind of obstruction in the
oral or the nasal passage, and in some cases with a mixture of breath
sound; -- a term introduced by Dr. James Rush in 1833. See Guide to
Pronunciation, //155, 199-202. - A subtonic sound or element; a vocal consonant, as b, d,
g, n, etc.; a subvocal. - The seventh tone of the scale, or that immediately below
the tonic; -- called also subsemitone.
- An order of curious parasitic worms found on
crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers
and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side.
N () the fourteenth letter of English alphabet, is a vocal consonent,
and, in allusion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or
linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done;
but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard
or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same
sound as the digraph ng in sing, bring, etc. This is a simple but
related sound, and is called the gutturo-nasal consonent. See Guide to
Pronunciation, // 243-246.