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A small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle.

ature and emetic properties, said to have been extracted from the root and foliage of the violet (Viola).

A player on the violin.

A player on the viol.

A player on the violoncello.

A stringed instrument of music; a bass viol of four strings, or a bass violin with long, large strings, giving sounds an octave lower than the viola, or tenor or alto violin.

The largest instrument of the bass-viol kind, having strings tuned an octave below those of the violoncello; the contrabasso; -- called also double bass. [Written also violono.]

Violent. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.

ed as a white or yellow crystalline substance, and forms characteristic yellow, blue, and violet salts.

See Bass viol.

A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello.

The quality or state of being inviolable; inviolableness.

Not violable; not susceptible of hurt, wound, or harm (used with respect to either physical or moral damage); not susceptible of being profaned or corrupted; sacred; holy; as, inviolable honor or chastity; an inviolable shrine. He tried a third, a tough, well-chosen spear, The inviolable body stood sincere. Dryden.…

The quality or state of being inviolable; as, the inviolableness of divine justice.

Without violation.

The state or quality of being inviolate; as, the inviolacy of an oath.

Not violated; uninjured; unhurt; unbroken. His fortune of arms was still inviolate. Bacon.

In an inviolate manner.

The state of being inviolate.

Lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end; -- said of rays more refrangible than the extreme violet rays of the spectrum.