Word Meanings - CONCERTINA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads.

• Headsman
  An executioner who cuts off heads.
• Instrumentalness
  Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality.
• Smallness
  The quality or state of being small.
• Haveless
  Having little or nothing.
• Headspring
  Fountain; source.
• Instrumentary
  Instrumental.
• Smallpox
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thi
• Havelock
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• Headstall
  That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head.
• Instrumentation
  The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency.
• Accordion
  A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.
• Havenage
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• Headstock
  A part (usually separate from the bed or frame) for supporting some of the principal working parts of a machine
• Instrumentist
  A performer on a musical instrument; an instrumentalist.
• Smallsword
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• Accordionist
  A player on the accordion.
• Havened
  Sheltered in a haven.
• Headstone
  The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone.

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