spirant

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Later, as Latin did not use for the consonant written as v in vis, &c. , was dropped and received a new special value in Latin as representative of the unvoiced labio-dental spirant.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

Waith, O. N. væiðr, has kept the spirant, but faid, a "company of hunters," has changed it to d.

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

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

Quam tacitæ spirant auræ! vultusque nitentes Contristant veneres, collachrimantque suæ!

From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)