Chapter Vocalic to Voided of V by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

1. The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom, or practice; popular reception for the time; — used now generally in the phrase in vogue.

One vogue, one vein,
One air of thoughts usurps my brain.

Herbert.

Whatsoever its vogue may be, I still flatter myself that the parents of the growing generation will be satisfied with what to be taught to their children in Westminster, in Eton, or in Winchester.

Burke.

Use may revive the obsoletest words,
And banish those that now are most in vogue.

Roscommon.

2. Influence; power; sway. [Obs.] Strype.

Voice
(Voice) n. [OE. vois, voys, OF. vois, voiz, F. voix, L. vox, vocis, akin to Gr. a word, a voice, Skr. vac to say, to speak, G. erwähnen to mention. Cf. Advocate, Advowson, Avouch, Convoke, Epic, Vocal, Vouch, Vowel.]

1. Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice.

He with a manly voice saith his message.

Chaucer.

Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman.

Shak.

Thy voice is music.

Shak.

Join thy voice unto the angel choir.

Milton.

2. (Phon.) Sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, etc., and also whisper.

Voice, in this sense, is produced by vibration of the so-called vocal cords in the larynx (see Illust. of Larynx) which act upon the air, not in the manner of the strings of a stringed instrument, but as a pair of membranous tongues, or reeds, which, being continually forced apart by the outgoing current of breath, and continually brought together again by their own elasticity and muscular tension, break the breath current into a series of puffs, or pulses, sufficiently rapid to cause the sensation of tone. The power, or loudness, of such a tone depends on the force of the separate pulses, and this is determined by the pressure of the expired air, together with the resistance on the part of the vocal cords which is continually overcome. Its pitch depends on the number of aërial pulses within a given time, that is, on the rapidity of their succession. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 5, 146, 155.

3. The tone or sound emitted by anything.

After the fire a still small voice.

1 Kings xix. 12.

Canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

Job xl. 9.

The floods have lifted up their voice.

Ps. xciii. 3.

O Marcus, I am warm'd; my heart
Leaps at the trumpet's voice.

Addison.

4. The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the voice.