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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Division; separation.
  • noun (Gram.) The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.

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