Definition of key

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Key (n.) A piece of wood used as a wedge.

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Submental :: Submediant (n.) The sixth tone of the scale; the under mediant, or third below the keynote; the superdominant..
Albanian :: Albanian (a.) Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey..
Key :: Key (n.) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
Spline :: Spline (n.) A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece..
Key :: Key (n.) Fig: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To tune with a wrest, or key..
Ateles :: Ateles (n.) A genus of American monkeys with prehensile tails, and having the thumb wanting or rudimentary. See Spider monkey, and Coaita..
Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
Lackey :: Lackey (v.) An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.
Prehensile :: Prehensile (n.) Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey..
Bandy :: Bandy (n.) The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.
Jockey :: Jockey (v. i.) To play or act the jockey; to cheat.
Cerris :: Cerris (n.) A species of oak (Quercus cerris) native in the Orient and southern Europe; -- called also bitter oak and Turkey oak.
Lackey :: Lackey (v. i.) To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
Xeriff :: Xeriff (n.) A gold coin formerly current in Egypt and Turkey, of the value of about 9s. 6d., or about $2.30; -- also, in Morocco, a ducat..
Ouarine :: Ouarine (n.) A Brazilian monkey of the genus Mycetes.
Concertina :: Concertina (n.) A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads..
Grasshopper :: Grasshopper (n.) In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key; -- called also the hopper..
Midas :: Midas (n.) A genus of longeared South American monkeys, including numerous species of marmosets. See Marmoset..
Jockeying :: Jockeying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jocke.
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