Definition of tone

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Tone (n.) General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners..

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Stubbed :: Stub (v. t.) To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object..
Antialbumid :: Antialbumid (n.) A body formed from albumin by pancreatic and gastric digestion. It is convertible into antipeptone.
Engrave :: Engrave (v. t.) To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription..
Shrill :: Shrill (v. i.) Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said of a sound, or of that which produces a sound..
Whin :: Whin (n.) Same as Whinstone.
Calcine :: Calcine (v. i.) To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid from limestone, and thus (usually) to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones..
Foralite :: Foralite (n.) A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata..
Calliope :: Calliope (n.) A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers..
Tonus :: Tonus (n.) Tonicity, or tone; as, muscular tonus..
Stony :: Stony (superl.) Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust..
Subduable :: Subdominant (n.) The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; -- so called as being under the dominant..
Brimstone :: Brimstone (v. t.) Sulphur; See Sulphur.
Marver :: Marver (n.) A stone, or cast-iron plate, or former, on which hot glass is rolled to give it shape..
Rag :: Rag (v. t.) To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone..
Bluestone :: Bluestone (n.) A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States..
Springer :: Springer (n.) The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer..
Foil :: Foil (n.) A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones..
Tone :: Tone (n.) Tonicity; as, arterial tone..
Cockhead :: Cockhead (n.) The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced..
Pebble :: Pebble (n.) A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone..
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