Word Meanings - HARPSICHORD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano.

• Playbook
  A book of dramatic compositions; a book of the play.
• Playtime
  Time for play or diversion.
• Shaping
  of Shape
• GRANDDUCAL
  Of or pertaining to a grand duke. H. James.
• Grandiloquence
  The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense.
• Grandpa
  Alt. of Grandpapa
• Instrumentist
  A performer on a musical instrument; an instrumentalist.
• Playday
  A day given to play or diversion; a holiday.
• Playwright
  A maker or adapter of plays.
• GRANDMAGRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• Grandiloquent
  Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
• Grandpapa
  A grandfather.
• Musical
  Of or pertaining to music; having the qualities of music; or the power of producing music; devoted to music; melodious; harmonious; as, musical proportion; a musical voice; musical instruments; a musical sentence; musical persons.
• Playwriter
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright.
• Shapeless
  Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to shapely.
• GRANDMERCY
  See Gramercy. [Obs.]

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