Word Meanings - FLUTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist. 2. One who makes grooves or flutings.

FLAUTIST
A player on the flute; a flutist.
FLUTED
1. Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes. Busby. 2. Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.
FLUTEMOUTH
A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.
MAKESHIFT
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
PLAYSOME
Playful; wanton; sportive. R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n.
FLUTER
1. One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist. 2. One who makes grooves or flutings.
FLUTE A BEC
A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.
FLUTIST
A performer on the flute; a flautist. Busby. 2. To move with quick vibrations or undulations; as, a sail flutters in the wind; a fluttering fan. 3. To move about briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result. No rag, no
FLUTE
A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n. 3. A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material,