Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the fauces or opening of the throat: specifically applied to certain deep guttural sounds, peculiar to the Semitic and some other tongues, which are produced in the fauces.
- noun In phonetics, a sound produced in the fauces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Phon.) Pertaining to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to the
fauces , oropening of thethroat ;faucial . - noun phonetics A sound produced in the fauces.
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- adjective of or relating to the fauces
Etymologies
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Latin fauces throat.
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Examples
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I could find, indeed, but one vulnerable point, and that, lying in a personal peculiarity, arising, perhaps, from constitutional disease, would have been spared by any antagonist less at his wit's end than myself; -- my rival had a weakness in the faucal or guttural organs, which precluded him from raising his voice at any time above a very low whisper.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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