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As for the sound like a woman laughing and crying, I never said it was a woman's voice; for, in the first place, I could only hear indistinctly; and, secondly, he may have an organ, or some queer instrument or other, with what they call the vox humana stop.

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  1. [plural] In the expressions voces Aretinæ, voces Belgicæ, etc., same as syllable, 2.
  2. Vox cholerica the faint voice noted in states of extreme prostration, as in the algid stage of cholera.
  3. Vox populi the voice of the people; the will and wish of the people.
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  • In order to spread our voiceprint traps, the ACC set up several NGOs to integrate vox-cutter tech into the public-call-office landline systems in Pakistani villages and to subsidize the extension of cell coverage in remote areas. —  FSF,December2007
  • We shipped boxloads of them to linemen who replaced their chips with our own vox-cutter SIMMs and bundled them for distribution with hand-crank chargers. —  FSF,December2007
  • We were in a celebratory mood; this marked the completion of our part in the vox-cutter project. —  FSF,December2007
  • In the third place, he has learned much by what is called the vox viva . —  Life Of Johnson, Volume 5
  • She had used the vox, what the Guyandot Skraelings called orenda. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 03 - March 1995
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