voicelessness

[English voicele ; -ne .] The quality or state of being voicele ; silence. "I have no right to seek a hiding-place within the pale of her po e ions by keeping her in a condition of voicele ne ." W. E. Gladstone , in a letter in Life of Bishop Wilberforce , ii. 353. võiç -ing, pr. par. & s. [VOICE, v.] A. As pr . par .: (See the verb.) B. As substantive: *1. Ord. Lang.: The act of using the voice; raising of a rumor, report, or the like; expre ing in words. paring away the upper edge of the block in a wooden 2. Music: In the construction of organ-pipes, mouth-pipe, opposite to the lip which imparts the vibration to the air i uing from the plate of wind (q. v.). The upper edge is obliquely serrated, to divide the i uing stream of air, the result of which is to prevent a chirping at the commencement of the note. The voicing of the metallic mouth-pipe is by making parallel notches on the beveled surface of the lip at an angle with the axis of the pipe.