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Pipe :: Pipe (v. t.) To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe..

Hemibranchi :: Hemibranchi (n. pl.) An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia..

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..

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..

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..

Chaunter :: Chaunter (n.) The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3..

Oriole :: Oriole (n.) Any one of various species of Old World singing birds of the family Oriolidae. They are usually conspicuously colored with yellow and black. The European or golden oriole (Oriolus galbula, or O. oriolus) has a very musical flutelike note..

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 It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder..

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

Chamfer :: Chamfer (v. t.) To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute..

Fife :: Fife (n.) A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music..

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

Flute :: Flute (v. t.) To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute..

Play :: Play (v. t.) To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ..

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

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

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

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) To give a finely fluted surface to.

Fluty :: Fluty (a.) Soft and clear in tone, like a flute..

Tibia :: Tibia (n.) A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal..

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