Word Meanings - ASSIBILATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to - shun, duke to ditch.

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• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• SIBILANT
  Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds. -- n.
• DITCHER
  One who digs ditches.
• CHANGEABLY
  In a changeable manner.
• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• DITCH
  1. A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse. 2. Any long,
• CHANGE
  1. To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance. Therefore will I change their glory into shame. Hosea. iv. 7. 2. To alter by
• LETTERN
  See LECTURN
• LETTER
  One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
• LETTERPRESS
  Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.
• LETTERLESS
  1. Not having a letter. 2. Illiterate. E. Waterhouse.
• LETTERWOOD
  The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum , found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for
• CHANGEABLE
  1. Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor. 2. Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk. Syn. -- Mutable; alterable;
• LETTERING
  1. The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting. 2. The letters made; as, the lettering of a sign.
• CHANGER
  1. One who changes or alters the form of anything. 2. One who deals in or changes money. John ii. 14. 3. One apt to change; an inconstant person.
• LETTERGRAM
  See ABOVE
• CHANGEABLENESS
  The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability.
• CHANGELING
  1. One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies. Such, men do changelings call, so changed by fairies' theft. Spenser. The changeling never known. Shak. 2. A simpleton; an idiot. Macaulay.
• CHANGEABILITY
  Changeableness.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• COUNTERCHANGED
  Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure. (more info)
• COUNTERCHANGE
  1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange. 2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.
• UNDERDITCH
  To dig an underground ditches in, so as to drain the surface; to underdrain; as, to underditch a field or a farm.
• INTERCHANGEABILITY
  The state or quality of being interchangeable; interchangeableness.
• ARCHANGELIC
  Of or pertaining to archangels; of the nature of, or resembling, an archangel. Milton.
• EXCHANGEABILITY
  The quality or state of being exchangeable. The law ought not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons. Washington.
• INCHANGEABILITY
  Unchangeableness. Kenrick.
• SEA LETTER
  The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.