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Key :: Key (n.) A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as sharp four, flat seven, etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key..

Yellowlegs :: Yellowlegs (n.) Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2..

Sextoness :: Sextoness (n.) A female sexton; a sexton's wife.

Chamfer :: Chamfer (n.) The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc..

Opalescence :: Opalescence (n.) A reflection of a milky or pearly light from the interior of a mineral, as in the moonstone; the state or quality of being opalescent..

Root :: Root (n.) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed..

Proparoxytone :: Proparoxytone (n.) A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.

Subcarboniferous :: Subcarboniferous (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone.

Ha :: Ha (interj.) An exclamation denoting surprise, joy, or grief. Both as uttered and as written, it expresses a great variety of emotions, determined by the tone or the context. When repeated, ha, ha, it is an expression of laughter, satisfaction, or triumph, sometimes of derisive laughter; or sometimes it is equivalent to Well, it is so..

Clove :: Clove (v. t.) A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove..

Mole :: Mole (n.) A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself..

Saccharoidal :: Saccharoidal (a.) Resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone..

Subduable :: Subdominant (n.) The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; -- so called as being under the dominant..

Fabrile :: Fabrile (a.) Pertaining to a workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as, fabrile skill..

Stone-cold :: Stonechat (n.) The blue titmouse.

Tonic :: Tonic (a.) Increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring healthy functions..

Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones..

Litholatry :: Litholatry (n.) The worship of a stone or stones.

Alabaster :: Alabaster (n.) A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made..

Mi :: Mi (n.) A syllable applied to the third tone of the scale of C, i. e., to E, in European solmization, but to the third tone of any scale in the American system..

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