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sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder. Flageolet tones (Mus.), the naturel harmonics or overtones of stringed instruments.

ed pipe. Flue pipes are either open or closed (stopped at the distant end). The flute and flageolet are open pipes; a bottle acts as a closed pipe when one blows across the neck. The organ has both open and closed flue pipes, those of metal being usually round in section, and those of wood triangular or square.…

, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.

certain stop in an organ, in which the pipes or tubes are formed like the mouthpiece of a flageolet at the end where the wind enters, and are open at the other end. -- Open flank (Fort.), the part of the flank covered by the orillon. -- Open-front furnace (Metal.), a blast furnace having a forehearth. -- Open harmon…

ely; excellently; with rare skill. See 3d Rare, 2. The person who played so rarely on the flageolet. Sir W. Scott. The rest of the spartments are rarely gilded. Evelyn.

A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. [Obs.] "Flutes and soft recorders." Milton.

, as a tune; to play. A person is the royal retinue touched a light and lively air on the flageolet. Sir W. Scott.

A little flute or flageolet, especially that which is used to teach birds. [Written also zuffolo.]