Definition of key

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Key (n.) Fig: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.

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Pokey :: Pokey (a.) See Poky.
Melodiograph :: Melodiograph (n.) A contrivance for preserving a record of music, by recording the action of the keys of a musical instrument when played upon..
Accordion :: Accordion (n.) A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds..
Laguay :: Laguay (n.) A lackey.
Lydian :: Lydian (a.) Of or pertaining to Lydia, a country of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants; hence, soft; effeminate; -- said especially of one of the ancient Greek modes or keys, the music in which was of a soft, pathetic, or voluptuous character..
Lock :: Lock (n.) Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened..
Durukuli :: Durukuli (n.) A small, nocturnal, South American monkey (Nyctipthecus trivirgatus)..
Alouatte :: Alouatte (n.) One of the several species of howling monkeys of South America. See Howler, 2..
Tamarin :: Tamarin (n.) Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially M. ursulus..
Pitheci :: Pitheci (n. pl.) A division of mammals including the apes and monkeys. Sometimes used in the sense of Primates.
Clicket :: Clicket (n.) A latch key.
Rackett :: Rackett (n.) An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys..
Meleagris :: Meleagris (n.) A genus of American gallinaceous birds, including the common and the wild turkeys..
Key :: Key (n.) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc..
Turkey :: Turkey (n.) Any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America..
Talon :: Talon (n.) The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
Progression :: Progression (n.) A regular succession of tones or chords; the movement of the parts in harmony; the order of the modulations in a piece from key to key.
Fricando :: Fricando (n.) A ragout or fricassee of veal; a fancy dish of veal or of boned turkey, served as an entree, -- called also fricandel..
Key Tone :: Key tone () See Keynote.
Waste :: Waste (v. i.) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc..
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