The manner or style in which a person ex presses himself; diction; phraseology; language; also, an expression, or a form of expression, A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence, A short written or spoken expression, verb_ divide, combine, or mark into phrases, put into words or an expression, transitive verb_ To express in words, or in peculiar words; to call; to style, (music) To divide into melodic phrases, intransitive verb_ rare To use proper or fine phrases, (music) To perform a passage with the correct phrasing,