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Definition of key

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Key (n.) A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as sharp four, flat seven, etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key..

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Gobble :: Gobble (v. t.) To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.

Cockeye :: Cockeye (n.) The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead..

Kalasie :: Kalasie (n.) A long-tailed monkey of Borneo (Semnopithecus rubicundus). It has a tuft of long hair on the head.

Crib :: Crib (n.) A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris/; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons..

Deadlatch :: Deadlatch (n.) A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key..

Bolt :: Bolt (n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key..

Gobble :: Gobble (v. i.) To make a noise like that of a turkey cock.

Bank :: Bank (n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ..

Pipe :: Pipe (n.) The key or sound of the voice.

"""jockey " :: "Jockey (v. t.) "" To jostle by riding against one."".

Drone :: Drone (v. i.) That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth..

Horse-jockey :: Horse-jockey (n.) A trainer and dealer in horses.

Modulate :: Modulate (v. t.) To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion..

Warine :: Warine (n.) A South American monkey, one of the sapajous..

Horse-chestnut :: Horse-chestnut (n.) The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes..

Saltant :: Saltant (v.) In a leaping position; springing forward; -- applied especially to the squirrel, weasel, and rat, also to the cat, greyhound, monkey, etc..

D :: D () The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A minor), or of the key tone in the relative minor of F..

Monkey :: Monkey (v. t. & i.) To act or treat as a monkey does; to ape; to act in a grotesque or meddlesome manner.

Belzebuth :: Belzebuth (n.) A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Brazil.

Jockey :: Jockey (n.) A professional rider of horses in races.