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e. Row, brothers, row the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past. Moore.

the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other. Moore (Encyc. of Music). Relative clause (Gram.), a clause introduced by a relative pronoun. -- Relative term, a term which implies relation to, as guardian to ward, matter to servant, husband to wife. Cf. Correlative.…

e which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent. Moore (Encyc. )

A small threestringed viol; a rebec. Moore (Encyc. of Music). All can be play on gittern or ribible. Chaucer.

s bound together, but separated by beads, and played with a stick with a ball at its end. Moore (Encyc. of Music. ).

An anchorage off shore. Same as Road, 4. Moored in the neighboring roadstead. Longfellow.

heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land. [prov. Eng.]

ding to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone. [Written also sagbut.] Moore (Encyc. of Music).

nce; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts. Moore (Encyc. of Music). In score (Mus.), having all the parts arranged and placed in juxtaposition. Smart. -- To quit scores, to settle or balance accounts; to render an equivalent; to make compensation. Does not the earth quit…

dy of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river. Michael Cassio, Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello, Is come shore. Shak. The fruitful shore of muddy Nile. Spenser. In shore, near the shore. Marryat. -- On shore. See under On. -- Shore birds (Zoöl.), a collective name for the various limicoline birds found on the…

hostly owl, Shrieking his baleful note. Spenser. She shrieked his name To the dark woods. Moore.

An interval comprising two octaves and a second. Moore (Encyc. of Music.)

n along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees. "When sundown skirts the moor." Tennyson.

(called also skitty cock, and skitty coot); the spotted crake (Porzana maruetta), and the moor hen. [Prov. Eng.]

To smother. See Smoor. [Obs.] Some dying vomit blood, and some were smored. Du Bartas.

by magic; enchantment. Like those Peri isles of light That hang by spellwork in the air. Moore.

diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored. Air spring, Boiling spring, etc. See under Air, Boiling, etc. -- Spring back (Bookbinding), a back with a curved piece of thin sheet iron or of stiff pasteboard fastened to the inside, the effect of which is to make the l…

A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase. "A rude and narrow stairway." Moore.

A dam or mound to stop water. [Prov. Eng.] Stank hen (Zoöl.), the moor hen; -- called also stankie. [Prov. Eng.]

Synonym of But. As sunshine, broken in the rill, Though turned astray, is sunshine still. Moore.