Voice

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One who speaks; a speaker.

II. Voice ·noun The tone or sound emitted by anything.

III. Voice ·noun Opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote.

IV. Voice ·vi To Clamor; to cry out.

V. Voice ·noun Command; precept;

— now chiefly used in scriptural language.

VI. Voice ·noun The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the voice.

VII. Voice ·noun Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion.

VIII. Voice ·vt To Vote; to Elect; to Appoint.

IX. Voice ·vt To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an Organ.

X. Voice ·vt To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.

XI. Voice ·noun A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.

XII. Voice ·vt To give utterance or expression to; to Utter; to Publish; to Announce; to Divulge; as, to voice the sentiments of the nation.

XIII. Voice ·noun Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice.

XIV. Voice ·noun Sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants b, v, d, ·etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone;

— distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, ·etc., and also whisper.