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    Syllable , n. [OE. sillable, OF. sillabe, F. syllabe, L. syllaba, Gr.  that which is held together, several letters taken together so as to form one sound, a syllable, fr.  to take together;  with +  to take; cf. Skr. labh, rabh.  Cf. Lemma, Dilemma.]
    1. An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word.  In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance.  One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reenforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, ยง275.
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    2. In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language.
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      Withouten vice [i. e. mistake] of syllable or letter.
      Chaucer.

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    3. A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
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      Before any syllable of the law of God was written.
      Hooker.

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      Who dare speak
      One syllable against him?
      Shak.

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    Syllable, v. t. To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.
    Milton.

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