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Ae :: Ae () A diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. It answers to the Gr. ai. The Anglo-Saxon short ae was generally replaced by a, the long / by e or ee. In derivatives from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E..

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

Lather :: Lather (v. t.) To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog..

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..

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

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

Blue :: Blue (superl.) Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue..

Ream :: Ream (v. t.) To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments..

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..

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

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

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

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..

Litter :: Litter (n.) Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter..

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..

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..

Whiplash :: Whiplash (n.) The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted..

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..

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

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

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