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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Turkeys :: Turkeys (a.) Turkish.
Beg :: Beg (n.) A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.
Lemur :: Lemur (n.) One of a family (Lemuridae) of nocturnal mammals allied to the monkeys, but of small size, and having a sharp and foxlike muzzle, and large eyes. They feed upon birds, insects, and fruit, and are mostly natives of Madagascar and the neighboring islands, one genus (Galago) occurring in Africa. The slow lemur or kukang of the East Indies is Nycticebus tardigradus. See Galago, Indris, and Colugo..
Manual :: Manual (a.) A keyboard of an organ or harmonium for the fingers, as distinguished from the pedals; a clavier, or set of keys..
Burro :: Burro (n.) A donkey.
Whiskyfied :: Whiskyfied (a.) Alt. of Whiskeyfie.
Meleagris :: Meleagris (n.) A genus of American gallinaceous birds, including the common and the wild turkeys..
Turkish :: Turkish (a.) Of or pertaining to Turkey or the Turks.
Hookey :: Hookey (n.) See Hockey.
Lackeys :: Lackeys (pl. ) of Lacke.
Turk :: Turk (n.) A native or inhabitant of Turkey.
Guereza :: Guereza (n.) A beautiful Abyssinian monkey (Colobus guereza), having the body black, with a fringe of long, silky, white hair along the sides, and a tuft of the same at the end of the tail. The frontal band, cheeks, and chin are white..
Novaculite :: Novaculite (n.) A variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are made; razor stone; Turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate..
Seraphine :: Seraphine (n.) A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument..
Grave :: Grave (superl.) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key..
Digitorium :: Digitorium (n.) A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano.
Divan :: Divan (n.) In Turkey and other Oriental countries: A council of state; a royal court. Also used by the poets for a grand deliberative council or assembly.
Toque :: Toque (n.) A variety of the bonnet monkey.
Monkey :: Monkey (n.) Any one of numerous species of Quadrumana (esp. such as have a long tail and prehensile feet) exclusive of apes and baboons.
Typewriter :: Typewriter (n.) An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper..
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