Grating or obnoxious
Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding
Vigorous; making strides
One of a class of s-like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth.
Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.
Used in address; appellative (said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed). For example "Domine, O Lord"
The vocative case
A word in the vocative case
Something said to (or as though to) a particular person or thing; an entreaty, an invocation.