songless

[Eng.song; -le .] 1. Destitute of the power of singing; as, a songle bird. 2. Without song; not singing. Byron: Childe Harold , iv. 3. "And silent rows the songle gondolier." songle -birds, s . pl . Ornithology: A popular name for the Mesomyodi (q. v.). sõng stěr, subst. [A. S. sangystre, sangstre=a female singer.] *1. A female singer. "Wa el, like a neat sempster and songster ; her page bearing a brown bowl."- Ben Jonson: Masque of Christ mas. †2. One who sings; one who is skilled in singing. (Seldom applied now to human beings except in contempt.) *3. A writer of songs. "He from Italian songsters takes his cue; Set Paul to music, he shall quote him too." Cowper : Progre of Error , 112. 4. A bird that sings; a song-bird. "Innumerous songsters , in the freshening shade Of new-sprung leaves." Thomson : Spring , 608. song-stre , s. [Eng. songster; -e ; the word is thus really a double feminine.] A female singer. ( Thomson : Summer , 706.) A word of recent introduction, and which was not introduced till it had been forgotten that songster was originally feminine. (Trench: English Past and Present , p. 112.) son-I-fer, s . [SONIFEROUS.] An acoustic instrument for collecting sound and conveying it to the ear of a partially deaf person. sō-nif-er-ous, a. [Lat. son us sound, fero =to bear, to bring.] Producing or conveying sound. [SONOROUS, 1.] "Let the subject-matter of sounds be what it will either the atmosphere in gro , or the æthe real part thereof, or soniferous particles of bodies, as some fancy."-Derham: Physico- Theology , bk. iv., ch. iii.