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.