Definition of flute

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Flute (v. i.) A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole..

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Tibial :: Tibial (a.) Of or pertaining to a pipe or flute.
Flute :: Flute (v. i.) A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole..
Fluty :: Fluty (a.) Soft and clear in tone, like a flute..
Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) To give a finely fluted surface to.
Fluted :: Fluted (imp. & p. p.) of Flut.
Flutemouth :: Flutemouth (n.) A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout..
Flute :: Flute (v. i.) To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound..
Play :: Play (n.) To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute..
Chanter :: Chanter (n.) The flute or finger pipe in a bagpipe. See Bagpipe.
Fife :: Fife (n.) A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music..
Chamfer :: Chamfer (v. t.) To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute..
Flute :: Flute (v. i.) A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n..
Hob :: Hob (n.) A threaded and fluted hardened steel cutter, resembling a tap, used in a lathe for forming the teeth of screw chasers, worm wheels, etc..
Tompion :: Tompion (n.) A plug in a flute or an organ pipe, to modulate the tone..
Fluted :: Fluted (a.) Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum..
Hemibranchi :: Hemibranchi (n. pl.) An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia..
Quality :: Quality (n.) That which makes, or helps to make, anything such as it is; anything belonging to a subject, or predicable of it; distinguishing property, characteristic, or attribute; peculiar power, capacity, or virtue; distinctive trait; as, the tones of a flute differ from those of a violin in quality; the great quality of a statesman..
Nehiloth :: Nehiloth (n. pl.) A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes..
Pipe :: Pipe (v. i.) To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music..
Flauto :: Flauto (n.) A flute.
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