Definition of flute

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Flute (n.) A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound..

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Whiffle :: Whiffle (n.) A fife or small flute.
Tibial :: Tibial (a.) Of or pertaining to a pipe or flute.
Flageolet :: Flageolet (n.) A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder..
Fraise :: Fraise (n.) A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
Flutist :: Flutist (n.) A performer on the flute; a flautist.
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..
Tongue :: Tongue (v. t.) To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments..
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..
Ruff :: Ruff (n.) A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children..
Flute :: Flute (v. t.) To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute..
Fluter :: Fluter (n.) One who makes grooves or flutings.
Tompion :: Tompion (n.) A plug in a flute or an organ pipe, to modulate the tone..
Goffer :: Goffer (v. t.) To plait, flute, or crimp. See Gauffer..
Fife :: Fife (n.) A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music..
Channel :: Channel (n.) A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column..
Flute :: Flute (v. i.) To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound..
Flute A Bec :: Flute a bec () A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet..
Chamfer :: Chamfer (v. t.) To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute..
Overblow :: Overblow (v. i.) To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing..
Glyptodon :: Glyptodon (n.) An extinct South American quaternary mammal, allied to the armadillos. It was as large as an ox, was covered with tessellated scales, and had fluted teeth..
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