Voiceless \Voice"less\, a.
1. Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb.
I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless
thought, sheathing it as a sword. --Byron.
2. (Phon.) Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant;
surd.
Voiceless stop (Phon.), a consonant made with no audible
sound except in the transition to or from another sound; a
surd mute, as p, t, k. -- Voice"less*ly, adv. --
Voice"less*ness, n.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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