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  • clavicytheriums or clavicytheria) (music) A harpsichord in which the soundboard and strings are mounted vertically facing the player. [early 16th c.] 1776, John Hawkins...
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  • (circa 4000) or double flutes, harps (3 to 20 strings), lutes (4 strings) trigonons (harps with 22 strings, held on the knees) and zithers (of Syrian importation...
    4 KB (484 words) - 18:02, 30 June 2024
  • his gift, and would very much like the pleasure of youse's company—no strings." 2019, August Nemo, Francis Stevens, Essential Novelists - Francis Stevens:...
    2 KB (244 words) - 04:45, 28 September 2024
  • June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive Soot Blowers”, in Railway Magazine, page 194: In order to deal with deposits of soot on boiler-tubes while...
    11 KB (1,071 words) - 20:52, 8 December 2024
  • eyes: when he was hot he could see the separate threads wound into the strings looping the hoop. Yet at the start of the game when you came out for warm-up...
    4 KB (311 words) - 14:19, 10 November 2024
  • reminder. 1954, The American Magazine, volume 157, page 119: "Mr. Bennett," she said remindingly, soberly, "you don't want any strings. You want to be free....
    360 bytes (45 words) - 04:37, 19 August 2024
  • something that looked a dried gourd; they shouted periodically together strings of amazing words that resembled no sounds of human language; and the deep...
    3 KB (228 words) - 12:49, 24 July 2024
  • caraguatá or embira string from slipping. page 535: The embira or caraguatá strings, were made taut or lax by twisting. 1948, Julian Haynes Steward, Bulletin...
    2 KB (209 words) - 13:13, 9 March 2024
  • heart-stopping heart-stoppingly heartstricken heartstring heartstrings heart strings heartstruck heart surgeon heartswelling heartthrob heart-throbbing heart-thumping...
    17 KB (2,471 words) - 14:41, 8 December 2024
  • cellophane (a byproduct of Dixie cottonseed, incidentally), either in long strings or in pound packages of ten priced at 60 cents. 1950 August, “Little stories...
    1 KB (165 words) - 19:49, 31 August 2023
  • running that show. 1961, The Violin Makers' Journal - Volume 5, page 71: The strings of some violins when up to pitch are loose and flabby; some are very taut...
    5 KB (425 words) - 10:48, 27 September 2024
  • and mending of bows and arrows in the said voyage". 1955, “Sticks and Strings (A pot-pourri on bow and arrows from an article in "Michigan Conservation")”...
    7 KB (984 words) - 16:28, 29 September 2024
  • it is the Lords Paſſeouer. 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings: The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it,...
    20 KB (1,800 words) - 17:24, 19 November 2024
  • smoothly. 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Effusion, Canto xxxv: And now, its strings Boldlier swept, the long sequacious notes Over delicious surges sink and...
    6 KB (563 words) - 04:48, 28 September 2024
  • Daisy Ventnor [pseudonym; Jeanie Gould], “‘Only a Private’”, in Peterson’s Magazine, volume LI, number 1, Philadelphia, Pa., page 67, column 1: By-the-way...
    19 KB (2,352 words) - 15:01, 2 June 2024
  • more closely. [from 17th c.] She took a deep breath and drew her corset-strings. (curling) To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular...
    50 KB (4,855 words) - 10:46, 6 December 2024
  • Australia, published April 2019: Finally he took a ball of worsted and tied strings of it across the back passage and across the opposite door. The fine, smooth...
    5 KB (507 words) - 12:45, 27 September 2024
  • vibration, usually by plucking. She watched as he thrummed the guitar strings absently. To make a monotonous drumming noise. to thrum on a table 1957...
    6 KB (695 words) - 19:34, 5 October 2024
  • Possessive of youse (standing in for your). 1901, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, a Popular Journal of General Literature, page 34: "Went away quick, now...
    1 KB (103 words) - 05:45, 19 August 2024
  • and covering the crotch. 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings: The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it,...
    3 KB (140 words) - 12:31, 19 November 2024
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