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A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.

The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.

A silver coin of Turkey formerly rated at twenty, but since 1880 at nineteen, piasters (about 83 cents).

A genus of American gallinaceous birds, including the common and the wild turkeys.

A contrivance for preserving a record of music, by recording the action of the keys of a musical instrument when played upon.

A rhythmical succession of single tones, ranging for the most part within a given key, and so related together as to form a musical whole, having the unity of what is technically called a musical thought, at once pleasing to the ear and characteristic in expression.

A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus), allied to the marmoset. The name was originally applied to an albino variety.

A genus of longeared South American monkeys, including numerous species of marmosets. See Marmoset.

To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.

A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key q…

A donkey. [Cant] Thackeray.

A small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches.

A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus.

The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch.

European species. See Gallinule. (c) An Australian rail (Tribonyx ventralis). -- Moor monkey (Zoöl.), the black macaque of Borneo (Macacus maurus). -- Moor titling (Zoöl.), the European stonechat (Pratinocola rubicola).

A cushion for terminating or softening a note made by a stringed instrument with a keyboard.

d printing machine for office use. The type is transferred semi-automatically by means of keys from a type-supply drum to a printing drum. The printing may be done by means of an inked ribbon to print "typewritten" letters, or directly from inked type or a stereotype plate, as in a printing press.

See Bonnet monkey, under Bonnet.

A small tufted monkey.

A West African monkey (Cercopithecus cephus). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose.