- 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
- Aircraft engine noise - Complain - Complain constantly - To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a
childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the
like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a
mean, unmanly way; to moan basely. - To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly
way; as, to whine out an excuse. - A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean
complaint; mean or affected complaint.
- 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.