Word Meanings - MELODICS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The department of musical science which treats of the pitch of tones, and of the laws of melody.
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- PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - PITCHERFUL
The quantity a pitcher will hold. - PITCHINESS
Blackness, as of pitch; darkness. - PITCHFORK
A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like. - DEPARTMENT
1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's - DEPARTMENTAL
Pertaining to a department or division. Burke. - PITCHWORK
The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product. - MUSICALLY
In a musical manner. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - PITCHER
1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically , the player who delivers the ball to the batsman. 2. A sort of crowbar for digging. Mortimer. - PITCH
See AMERICA (more info) 1. A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., - MUSICALE
A social musical party. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - PITCHING
A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents. Pitching piece , the horizontal timber supporting the floor of a platform of a stairway, and against which the stringpieces of the sloping parts are supported. (more info) - PITCH-DARK
Dark as a pitch; pitch-black. - PITCH-FACED
Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; -- said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced. - PITCHY
1. Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch. 2. Smeared with pitch. 3. Black; pitch-dark; dismal. "Pitchy night." Shak. - MUSICALNESS
The quality of being musical. - MELODY
A rhythmical succession of single tones, ranging for the most part within a given key, and so related together as to form a musical whole, having the unity of what is technically called a musical thought, at once pleasing to the ear and - PITCH-ORE
Pitchblende. - PHILOMUSICAL
Loving music. Busby. - PHITONESS
Pythoness; witch. - AUCTION PITCH
A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster. - WATER PITCHER
One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower is the type. (more info) 1. A pitcher for water. - PRESCIENCE
Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards. - TARTINI'S TONES
See TONE - OMNISCIENCE
The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden. - UNSCIENCE
Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer. - CONSCIENCE
consciens, p.pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power,