a.
Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal
sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced;
tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- sid of the vowels,
semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b,
d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc.,
which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate.