Word Meanings - CORNET-A-PISTON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.

• INSTRUMENTALISM
  The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n. Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these ideas a
• Cornetcy
  The commission or rank of a cornet.
• Instrumentation
  The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency.
• 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
• Corneter
  One who blows a cornet.
• Instrumentist
  A performer on a musical instrument; an instrumentalist.
• Slidden
  p. p. of Slide.
• Smalls
  See Small, n., 2, 3.
• MOVINGPICTURE
  A series of pictures, usually photographs taken with a special machine, presented to the eye in very rapid succession, with some or all of the objects in the picture represented in slightly changed positions, producing, by persistence of vision, the opt
• Brasses
  of Brass
• Cornopean
  An obsolete name for the cornet-a-piston.
• Movability
  Movableness.
• Slidder
  To slide with interruption.
• Smallsword
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• SLIDDERSLIDDERLYSLIDDERY
  Slippery. [Obs.] To a drunk man the way is slidder. Chaucer.
• Furnished
  of Furnish
• Movable
  Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine.

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