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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Pouchong :: Pouchong (n.) A superior kind of souchong tea.
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..
Lorate :: Lorate (a.) Having the form of a thong or strap; ligulate.
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..
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..
Monophthong :: Monophthong (n.) A combination of two written vowels pronounced as one; a digraph.
Glide :: Glide (n.) A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element)
Diphthongic :: Diphthongic (a.) Of the nature of diphthong; diphthongal.
Soochong :: Soochong (n.) Same as Souchong.
Brail :: Brail (n.) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
Lash :: Lash (n.) The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given..
Diphthongal :: Diphthongal (a.) Relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong.
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..
Ream :: Ream (v. t.) To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments..
Aphthong :: Aphthong (n.) A letter, or a combination of letters, employed in spelling a word, but in the pronunciation having no sound..
Whiplash :: Whiplash (n.) The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted..
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..
Whang :: Whang (n.) A leather thong.
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..
Monophthongal :: Monophthongal (a.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, a monophthong..
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