( n. )
A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army.
( n. )
A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary. Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012