spirant

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Floribus in pratis, legi quos ipse, coronam   Contextam variis, do, Rhodoclea, tibi: Hic anemone humet, confert narcissus odores   Cum violis; spirant lilia mista rosis.

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel

The spirant th corresponding to O. N. ð, and O. E. d.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias

How he would lie! and what lungs he had to lie with! immensa cavi spirant mendacia folles!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various

The Sco. garth has changed the original voiced spirant to a voiceless one.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias

G is the soft spirant, not used in English.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various