Word Meanings - PIANINO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pianette, or small piano.

Related words: (words related to PIANINO)

• PIANOGRAPH
  A form of melodiograph applied to a piano.
• PIANO
  Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• PIANETTE
  A small piano; a pianino.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• PIANO; PIANOFORTE
  A well-known musical instrument somewhat resembling the harpsichord, and consisting of a sreies of wires of graduated length, thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys. Dumb piano. See Digitorium. -- Grand piano. See under Grand. --
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• MELOPIANO
  A piano having a mechanical attachment which enables the player to prolong the notes at will.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.
• BAPTISMALLY
  In a baptismal manner.