Definition of key

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Key (n.) The last board of a floor when laid down.

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Lackeying :: Lackeying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lacke.
Key :: Key (n.) The last board of a floor when laid down.
Claviger :: Claviger (n.) One who carries the keys of any place.
Carillon :: Carillon (n.) A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys..
Footboy :: Footboy (n.) A page; an attendant in livery; a lackey.
Horse-jockey :: Horse-jockey (n.) A professional rider and trainer of race horses.
Chatelaine :: Chatelaine (n.) An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain..
Lug :: Lug (n.) A projecting piece to which anything, as a rod, is attached, or against which anything, as a wedge or key, bears, or through which a bolt passes, etc..
Deadlock :: Deadlock (n.) A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward..
Modulation :: Modulation (n.) A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudden and unprepared modulations..
Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
Lackey :: Lackey (v. i.) To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
Jockey :: Jockey (n.) A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
Tackey :: Tackey (a. & n.) See Tacky.
Pug-faced :: Pug-faced (a.) Having a face like a monkey or a pug; monkey-faced.
Sagitta :: Sagitta (n.) The keystone of an arch.
Key :: Key (n.) That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
Bandy :: Bandy (n.) A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
Brush Turkey :: Brush turkey () A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidae. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea..
Monkey :: Monkey (v. t. & i.) To act or treat as a monkey does; to ape; to act in a grotesque or meddlesome manner.
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