Van"ish (?), n.
(Phon.) The brief
terminal part of vowel or vocal element, differing more or less
in quality from the main
part; as, a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill, o as in old
with a vanish of oo as in foot. Rush.
&fist; The vanish is included by Mr. Bell under the general term glide.
Van"ish (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vanished (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Vanishing.]
[OE. vanissen, OF. vanir (in comp.): cf. OF. envanir, esvanir, esvanuïr, F. s'évanouir; fr. L.
vanus empty, vain; cf.
L. vanescere, evanescere, to vanish. See Vain, and cf. Evanescent,-ish.]
1. To pass from
a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by
being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on land.
The horse vanished . . . out of sight.
Chaucer.
Go; vanish into air; away!
Shak. The champions
vanished from their
posts with the speed of lightning.
Sir
W. Scott. Gliding from the twilight past to vanish among realities.
Hawthorne.
2. To be
annihilated or lost; to pass away. "All these delights will vanish." Milton.
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