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- Fricative - a. - Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being continued or prolonged; -- said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v, s, z, etc.
- Fricative - n. - A fricative consonant letter or sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-206, etc.
- Fricative - n. - A fricative consonant letter or sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-206, etc.
- Xyster - n. - An instrument for scraping bones. Y () Y, the twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, at the beginning of a word or syllable, except when a prefix (see Y-), is usually a fricative vocal consonant; as a prefix, and usually in the middle or at the end of a syllable, it is a vowel. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 145, 178-9, 272.