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Webster 1913 Edition
Hong
Hong
,Noun.
[Chinese
hang
, Canton dialect hong
, a mercantile house, factory.] 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.
Hong merchant
, one of the few Chinese merchants who, previous to the treaty of 1842, formed a guild which had the exclusive privilege of trading with foreigners.
Hong
,Verb.
T.
& I.
To hang.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.