Frĭc'a-tive, a.

a. [See FRICATION.] (Pron.) Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth-organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being continued or prolonged;—said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v, s, z, &c.