Vocabulary : Toncanet to Tongs
Toncanet : A small toucan.Tone : Quality, with respect to attendant feeling; the more or less variable complex of emotion accompanying and characterizing a sensation or a conceptual state; as, feeling tone; color tone. ;; Color quality proper; -- called also hue. Also, a gradation of color, either a hue, or a tint or shade. ;; The condition of normal balance of a healthy plant in its relations to light, heat, and moisture. ;; Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone. ;; Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion. ;; A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone. ;; A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones. ;; The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the s
Toned : of Tone ;; Having (such) a tone; -- chiefly used in composition; as, high-toned; sweet-toned.
Toneless : Having no tone; unmusical.
Tong : In China, an association, secret society, or organization of any kind; in the United States, usually, a secret association of Chinese such as that of the highbinders. ;; Alt. of Tonge
