- (n.) A pause or cessation; suspension.
- (n.) A fainting or swooning. See Fainting.
- (n.) Same as Syncopation.
- (n.) An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne'er for never, ev'ry for every.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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