ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

V. utter, breathe; give utterance, give tongue; cry &c (shout) 411; ejaculate, rap out;
vocalize, prolate † , articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth;
whisper in the ear.
Adj. vocal, phonetic, oral; ejaculatory, articulate, distinct, stertorous; euphonious &c
(melodious) 413.
Phr. how sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman [Massinger]; the organ of the soul
[Longfellow]; thy voice is a celestial melody [Longfellow].
581. Aphony -- N. aphony † , aphonia † ; dumbness &c adj.; obmutescence † ; absence of
voice, want of voice; dysphony † ; cacoepy † ; silence &c (taciturnity) 585; raucity † ; harsh
voice &c 410, unmusical voice &c 414; falsetto, childish treble mute; dummy.
V. keep silence &c 585; speak low, speak softly; whisper &c (faintness) 405.
silence; render mute, render silent; muzzle, muffle, suppress, smother, gag, strike
dumb, dumfounder; drown the voice, put to silence, stop one's mouth, cut one short.
stick in the throat.
Adj. aphonous † , dumb, mute; deafmute, deaf and dumb; mum; tongue-tied; breathless,
tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless; mute as a fish, mute as a stockfish † , mute as a
mackerel; silent &c (taciturn) 585; muzzled; inarticulate, inaudible.
croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a raven; rough.
Adv. with bated breath, with the finger on the lips; sotto voce [Lat.]; in a low tone, in a
cracked voice, in a broken voice.
Phr. vox faucibus haesit [Lat.] [Vergil].
582. Speech -- N. speech, faculty of speech; locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse,
prolation † , oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion.
oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal
speech, peroration; speechifying; soliloquy &c 589; allocution &c 586; conversation &c
588; salutatory : screed: valedictory [U.S.].
oratory; elocution, eloquence; rhetoric, declamation; grandiloquence, multiloquence † ;
burst of eloquence; facundity † ; flow of words, command of words, command of
language; copia verborum [Lat.]; power of speech, gift of the gab; usus loquendi [Lat.].
speaker &c v.; spokesman; prolocutor, interlocutor; mouthpiece, Hermes; orator,
oratrix † , oratress † ; Demosthenes, Cicero; rhetorician; stump orator, platform orator;
speechmaker, patterer † , improvisatore † .
V. speak of; say, utter, pronounce, deliver, give utterance to; utter forth, pour forth;
breathe, let fall, come out with; rap out, blurt out have on one's lips; have at the end of
one's tongue, have at the tip of one's tongue.
break silence; open one's lips, open one's mouth; lift one's voice, raise one's voice;
give the tongue, wag the tongue; talk, outspeak † ; put in a word or two, hold forth; make a
speech, deliver a speech &c n.; speechify, harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, recite,
lecture, sermonize, discourse, be on one's legs; have one's say, say one's say; spout, rant,
rave, vent one's fury, vent one's rage; expatiate &c (speak at length) 573; speak one's
mind, go on the stump, take the stump [U.S.].
soliloquize &c 589; tell &c (inform) 527; speak to &c 586; talk together &c 588.
be eloquent &c adj.; have a tongue in one's head, have the gift of the gab &c n.. pass
one's lips, escape one's lips; fall from the lips, fall from the mouth.