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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 It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder..

Fluted :: Fluted (a.) Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes..

Gauffer :: Gauffer (v. t.) To plait, crimp, or flute; to goffer, as lace. See Goffer..

Auletic :: Auletic (a.) Of or pertaining to a pipe (flute) or piper.

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..

Embouchure :: Embouchure (n.) The shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece; as, a flute player has a good embouchure..

Cabling :: Cabling (n.) The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft..

Zufolo :: Zufolo (n.) A little flute or flageolet, especially that which is used to teach birds..

Fraise :: Fraise (n.) A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.

Play :: Play (n.) To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute..

Whiffle :: Whiffle (n.) A fife or small flute.

Piccolo :: Piccolo (n.) A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute..

Tibia :: Tibia (n.) A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal..

Tongue :: Tongue (v. i.) To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments..

Flute :: Flute (n.) A long French breakfast roll.

Sweet :: Sweet (superl.) Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer..

Fluter :: Fluter (n.) One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist.

Washboard :: Washboard (n.) A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them..

Grenadillo :: Grenadillo (n.) A handsome tropical American wood, much used for making flutes and other wind instruments; -- called also Grenada cocos, or cocus, and red ebony..

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