Grammar. A short syllable. Obsolete.

Grammar. A short syllable, = breve, n. 3. Obsolete.

A syllable added for euphony or to fill out a sentence, etc. Obsolete. rare.

In Welsh prosody: a syllable consisting of a non-Welsh sound followed by a gravisparsison (gravisparsison, n.) or fortisparsison (fortisparsison, n.).

In Welsh prosody: a syllable terminating with certain consonant clusters such as dr or gr. Cf. alienisparsison, n., gravisparsison, n.

In Welsh prosody: a syllable terminating with r directly followed by an n, s, or a stop. Cf. alienisparsison, n., fortisparsison, n.

Made close, shut; spec. confined to a few people; limited by certain conditions; self-contained. (Cf. close, adj. 9 and sense 2 below.) Also with…

a syllable formed by putting an arbitrary vowel between two arbitrary consonants, used in memory experiments and tests.

Phonetics. The initial unstressed syllable or syllables occurring immediately before the head in a tone group (cf. tone-group n. at tone, n.…