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A key of the piano or organ. The wakeful bird . . . tunes her nocturnal note. Milton. That note of revolt against the eighteenth century, which we detect in Goethe, was struck by Winckelmann. W. Pater.

upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with; as, to play on a violin or piano. Hence, figuratively, to work on one's feelings; to make an impression on the mind.

e filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ. The deep, majestic, solemn organs blow. Pope.

part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes.

A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.

The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.

A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle.

d lophophore, and the mouth is covered by an epistome. Called also Lophopoda, and hippocrepians.

A small upright piano.

Pian; pang. "Necessary's sharp pinch." Shak.

, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano. practise

l performance by one person; -- distinguished from concert; as, a song recital; an organ, piano, or violin recital.

from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson (More's Utopia). Reject me not from among thy children. Wisdom ix. 4.

A yellowish red crystalline substance related to anthracene, and obtained from opianic acid.

The Eustachian tube, or the Fallopian tube.

), a small leguminous tree (Halimodendron argenteum) growing in the salt plains of the Caspian region and in Siberia. -- Salt water, water impregnated with salt, as that of the ocean and of certain seas and lakes; sometimes, also tears. Mine eyes are full of tears, I can not see; And yet salt water blinds them not so…

An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; as, the Caspian Sea; the Sea of Aral; sometimes, a small fresh-water lake; as, the Sea of Galilee.

Always; throughout; as, sempre piano, always soft.

To withdraw; to retire. [Obs.] To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics. Milton.

of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.