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Word Meanings - ALTHORN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove.

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  • MUSIC HALL
    A place for public musical entertainments; specif. , esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
  • INSTRUMENTAL
    Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
  • REPLACEMENT
    The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
  • FAMILY
    A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
  • MUSICALLY
    In a musical manner.
  • MUSIC DRAMA
    An opera in which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious
  • OFTENNESS
    Frequency. Hooker.
  • INSTRUMENTALITY
    The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
  • MUSICALE
    A social musical party.
  • GROVEL
    adv., on the face, prone, which was misunderstood as a p. pr.; cf. OE. gruf, groff, in the same sense; of Scand. origin, cf. Icel. 1. To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate
  • INSTRUMENTATION
    1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical
  • OFTEN
    Frequently; many times; not seldom.
  • FRENCH
    Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. French bean , the common kidney bean . -- French berry , the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. -- French casement See French
  • MUSICOMANIA
    A kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes so strong as to derange the intellectual faculties. Dunglison.
  • INSTRUMENTALLY
    1. By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end. South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke. 2. With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied. Mason.
  • INSTRUMENT
    A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc. Burrill. 4. One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium,
  • GROVELER
    One who grovels; an abject wretch.
  • FRENCHIFY
    To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. Burke.
  • REPLACEABILITY
    The quality, state, or degree of being replaceable.
  • INSTRUMENTALISM
    The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n. Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these
  • PHILOMUSICAL
    Loving music. Busby.
  • UNDERGROVE
    A grove of shrubs or low trees under taller ones. Wordsworth.
  • UNOFTEN
    Not often.

 

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