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Snowshoe :: Snowshoe (n.) A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow..

Tonic :: Tonic (a.) Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation..

Trigraph :: Trigraph (n.) Three letters united in pronunciation so as to have but one sound, or to form but one syllable, as -ieu in adieu; a triphthong..

W :: W () the twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, is usually a consonant, but sometimes it is a vowel, forming the second element of certain diphthongs, as in few, how. It takes its written form and its name from the repetition of a V, this being the original form of the Roman capital letter which we call U. Etymologically it is most related to v and u. See V, and U. Some of the uneducated classes in England, especially in London, confuse w and v, substituting the one for the other, as weal

Capling :: Capling (n.) The cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs pass which connect the handle and swingel..

Diphthongalize :: Diphthongalize (v. t.) To make into a diphthong; to pronounce as a diphthong.

Diphthongation :: Diphthongation (n.) See Diphthongization.

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..

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..

Monophthongal :: Monophthongal (a.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, a monophthong..

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

Crasis :: Crasis (n.) A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; synaeresis; as, cogo for coago..

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..

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

Aphthong :: Aphthong (n.) A letter, or a combination of letters, employed in spelling a word, but in the pronunciation having no sound..

Lime :: Lime (n.) A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.

Monophthong :: Monophthong (n.) A single uncompounded vowel sound.

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..

Lacing :: Lacing (n.) A lace; specifically (Mach.), a thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts..

Quirt :: Quirt (n.) A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.

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