Definition of key

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Key (n.) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara; -- called also key fruit..

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Talon :: Talon (n.) The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
Gobble :: Gobble (v. t.) To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
Hawkey :: Hawkey (n.) See Hockey.
Pass-key :: Pass-key (n.) A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.
Monkey :: Monkey (n.) Any species of Quadrumana, except the lemurs..
Loutou :: Loutou (n.) A crested black monkey (Semnopithecus maurus) of Java.
Coaita :: Coaita (n.) The native name of certain South American monkeys of the genus Ateles, esp. A. paniscus. The black-faced coaita is Ateles ater. See Illustration in Appendix..
Meleagris :: Meleagris (n.) A genus of American gallinaceous birds, including the common and the wild turkeys..
Blickey :: Blickey (n.) A tin dinner pail.
Whiskeys :: Whiskeys (pl. ) of Whisk.
Douc :: Douc (n.) A monkey (Semnopithecus nemaeus), remarkable for its varied and brilliant colors. It is a native of Cochin China..
Lackeyed :: Lackeyed (imp. & p. p.) of Lacke.
Chaunter :: Chaunter (n.) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey..
Hurdy-gurdy :: Hurdy-gurdy (n.) A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys..
Pony :: Pony (n.) A translation or a key used to avoid study in getting lessons; a crib.
Shinty :: Shinty (n.) A Scotch game resembling hockey; also, the club used in the game..
Virginal :: Virginal (n.) An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals..
Keyage :: Keyage (n.) Wharfage; quayage.
Malbrouck :: Malbrouck (n.) A West African arboreal monkey (Cercopithecus cynosurus).
Khedive :: Khedive (n.) A governor or viceroy; -- a title granted in 1867 by the sultan of Turkey to the ruler of Egypt.
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