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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Ream :: Ream (v. t.) To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments..
Souchong :: Souchong (n.) A kind of black tea of a fine quality.
Capling :: Capling (n.) The cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs pass which connect the handle and swingel..
Lather :: Lather (v. t.) To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog..
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..
Blue :: Blue (superl.) Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue..
Lanier :: Lanier (n.) A thong of leather; a whip lash.
Diphthongation :: Diphthongation (n.) See Diphthongization.
Monophthong :: Monophthong (n.) A single uncompounded vowel sound.
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..
Thong :: Thong (n.) A strap of leather; especially, one used for fastening anything..
Diphthongization :: Diphthongization (n.) The act of changing into a diphthong.
Lacing :: Lacing (n.) A lace; specifically (Mach.), a thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts..
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..
Lime :: Lime (n.) A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.
Brail :: Brail (n.) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
Diphthongize :: Diphthongize (v. t. & i.) To change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel..
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..
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
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..
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