(n.) One of the three surd mutes /, /, /; -- so called in relation to their respective middle letters or medials, /, /, /, and their aspirates, /, /, /. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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