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Mezzo-rilievo :: Mezzo-rilievo (n.) Sculpture in this kind of relief. See under Alto-rilievo.

Trance :: Trance (n.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible..

Mean :: Mean (n.) A part, whether alto or tenor, intermediate between the soprano and base; a middle part..

Alto :: Alto (n.) An alto singer.

Contralto :: Contralto (n.) The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor.

Contratenor :: Contratenor (n.) Counter tenor; contralto.

Violoncello :: Violoncello (n.) A stringed instrument of music; a bass viol of four strings, or a bass violin with long, large strings, giving sounds an octave lower than the viola, or tenor or alto violin..

Contralto :: Contralto (n.) the voice or singer performing this part; as, her voice is a contralto; she is a contralto..

Demi-rilievo :: Demi-rilievo (n.) A work of sculpture of the above character. See Alto-rilievo.

Swop :: Swoopstake (adv.) Altogether; indiscriminately.

Maltose :: Maltose (n.) A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power..

Daltonian :: Daltonian (n.) One afflicted with color blindness.

Altogether :: Altogether (adv.) All together; conjointly.

Second :: Second (n.) The second part in a concerted piece; -- often popularly applied to the alto.

All :: All (adv.) Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement..

Trombone :: Trombone (n.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whos

Bas-relief :: Bas-relief (n.) Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; -- called also bassrelief and basso-rilievo. See Alto-rilievo..

Basaltoid :: Basaltoid (a.) Formed like basalt; basaltiform.

Altos :: Altos (pl. ) of Alt.

Mezzo-soprano :: Mezzo-soprano (a.) Having a medium compass between the soprano and contralto; -- said of the voice of a female singer.

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