a. (sb.). [ad. mod.L. ūvulār-is (whence also F. uvulaire), f. med.L. ūvula UVULA.]

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  1.  Used in disorders of the uvula. rare–1.

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1710.  T. Fuller, Pharm. Extemp. (1719), 480. Uvular Powder … Let the Powder be blown upon the Uvula with a Pipe or Uvula Spoon.

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  2.  Pertaining or belonging to the uvula.

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1843.  Wilkinson, Swedenborg’s Anim. Kingd., I. ii. 67. The palatine and uvular glands.

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1848.  Dunglison, Dict. Med. Sci. (ed. 7), 878. Uvular glands, are small follicles, belonging to the mucous membrane covering the uvula.

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1891.  Cent. Dict., s.v., Uvular muscle.

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  3.  Produced by vibration of the uvula.

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1873.  Murray, Dialect So. Counties, 241. The uvular trill in French Paris.

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1884.  Schaff’s Encycl. Relig. Knowl., III. 2155. The Semitic alphabet is … characterized by fulness of guttural, uvular, and spirant consonants.

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1889.  Ellis, E. E. Pronunc., v. 642. The German uvular r.

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  b.  As sb. A uvular consonant.

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1884.  Schaff’s Encycl. Relig. Knowl., III. 2155. In the several [Semitic] dialects, the movement has been towards a diminution of the number of gutturals and uvulars.

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  Hence Uvularly adv., with a thick obstructed utterance, as when the uvula is unduly long.

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1860.  Dickens, Uncomm. Trav., iii. Number Two laughed (very uvularly), and the skirmishers followed suit.

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