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Brail :: Brail (n.) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.

Phthongometer :: Phthongometer (n.) An instrument for measuring vocal sounds.

Lingel :: Lingel (n.) A little tongue or thong of leather; a lacing for belts.

Synallagmatic :: Synalepha (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..

Tonic :: Tonic (n.) A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.

Leather :: Leather (v. t.) To beat, as with a thong of leather..

Monophthong :: Monophthong (n.) A combination of two written vowels pronounced as one; a digraph.

Lash :: Lash (n.) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten; as, to lash something to a spar; to lash a pack on a horse's back..

Phthongal :: Phthongal (a.) Formed into, or characterized by, voice; vocalized; -- said of all the vowels and the semivowels, also of the vocal or sonant consonants g, d, b, l, r, v, z, etc..

Diphthongal :: Diphthongal (a.) Relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong.

Sea Thongs :: Sea thongs () A kind of blackish seaweed (Himanthalia lorea) found on the northern coasts of the Atlantic. It has a thonglike forking process rising from a top-shaped base.

Lorate :: Lorate (a.) Having the form of a thong or strap; ligulate.

Diphthong :: Diphthong (n.) A vowel digraph; a union of two vowels in the same syllable, only one of them being sounded; as, ai in rain, eo in people; -- called an improper diphthong..

Triphthongal :: Triphthongal (a.) Of or pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of three vowel sounds pronounced together in a single syllable.

Oe :: Oe () a diphthong, employed in the Latin language, and thence in the English language, as the representative of the Greek diphthong oi. In many words in common use, e alone stands instead of /. Classicists prefer to write the diphthong oe separate in Latin words..

Knout :: Knout (n.) A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh..

Diphthong :: Diphthong (n.) A coalition or union of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable; as, ou in out, oi in noise; -- called a proper diphthong..

Lash :: Lash (n.) The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given..

Diphthongic :: Diphthongic (a.) Of the nature of diphthong; diphthongal.

Diphthongization :: Diphthongization (n.) The act of changing into a diphthong.

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