Word Meanings - DOUBLETONGUING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.

• Peculiarness
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity.
• Playhouse
  A building used for dramatic exhibitions; a theater.
• Repetitioner
  One who repeats.
• CORNETAPISTON
  A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.
• Articulator
  One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.
• Playmaker
  A playwright.
• Staccato
  Disconnected; separated; distinct; -- a direction to perform the notes of a passage in a short, distinct, and pointed manner. It is opposed to legato, and often indicated by heavy accents written over or under the notes, or by dots when the perfor
• FLUTEABEC
  A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.
• Cornets-a-piston
  of Cornet-a-piston
• Playing
  of Play
• Playmate
  A companion in diversions; a playfellow.
• RAPIDFIRERAPIDFIRING
  In the United States navy, designating such a gun using fixed ammunition or metallic cartridge cases; -- distinguished from breech- loading (abbr. B. L.), applied to all guns loading with the charge in bags, and formerly from quick-fire. Rapid-fire guns
• Cornet-a-piston
  A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.
• Playsome
  Playful; wanton; sportive.
• Tongued
  of Tongue

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