Consonant Consonant In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Examples are , pronounced with the lips; , pronounced with the front of the tongue; , pronounced with the back of the tongue; , pronounced in the throat; and , pronounced by forcing air through a narrow channel (fricatives); and and , which have air flowing through the nose (nasals). Contrasting with consonants are vowels. Since the number of possible sounds in all of the world's languages is much greater than the number of letters in any one
The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry the principal revenues of the state, and even supply the defect of all others, when they happen to fail. A definition of husbandry can be found in the lemma on husbandry, which also appeared in Temple Henry Croker et al. (1764) "The complete dictionary of arts and sciences,": HUSBANDRY, the business or employment of a farmer, or person who cultivates land, Bzc.Husbandry is divided into two kinds, and distinguished by the old and new. early times ; and the latter that introduced by the ingenious Mr. Tull, and often called the horse-hoeing husbandry... The lemma on husbandry continues with a