Definition of hong

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Hong (n.) A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage..

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Sooshong :: Sooshong (n.) See Souchong.
Balachong :: Balachong (n.) A condiment formed of small fishes or shrimps, pounded up with salt and spices, and then dried. It is much esteemed in China..
Vocal :: Vocal (n.) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal..
Tonic :: Tonic (n.) A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
Phthongal :: Phthongal (n.) A vocalized element or letter.
Diphthongalize :: Diphthongalize (v. t.) To make into a diphthong; to pronounce as a diphthong.
Whiplash :: Whiplash (n.) The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted..
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..
Diphthongization :: Diphthongization (n.) The act of changing into a diphthong.
Lorate :: Lorate (a.) Having the form of a thong or strap; ligulate.
Whang :: Whang (n.) A leather thong.
Brail :: Brail (n.) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
Diphthongal :: Diphthongal (a.) Relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong.
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
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..
Leash :: Leash (n.) A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog..
Leather :: Leather (v. t.) To beat, as with a thong of leather..
Triphthongal :: Triphthongal (a.) Of or pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of three vowel sounds pronounced together in a single syllable.
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..
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