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An instrument which is turned like a key in fastening or adjusting any mechanism; as, a watch key; a bed key, etc.

A samara.

See Keynote.

Cold as a metallic key; lifeless. [Formerly, a proverbial expression.] Shak. Milton.

Wharfage; quayage.

The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys of an organ, typewriter, etc.

Furnished with keys; as, a keyed instrument; also, set to a key, as a tune. Keyed bugle. See Kent bugle.

A hole or apertupe in a door or lock, for receiving a key.

tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; -- called also key tone.

To form a key seat, as by cutting. See Key seat, under Key.

from the other voussoirs, or projects, or is decorated with carving. See Illust. of Arch. Keystone State, the State of Pennsylvania; -- so called from its having been the central State of the Union at the formation of the Constitution.

Pennsylvania; -- a nickname alluding to its having been the central one of the 13 original United States.

See Key way, under Key.

An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead.

A tin dinner pail. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

A bowl or vessel made from a gourd. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidæ. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea.

American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Æsculus) as the horse chestnut. The Ohio buckeye, or Fetid buckeye, is Æsculus glabra. -- Red buckeye is Æ. Pavia. -- Small buckeye is Æ. paviflora. -- Sweet buckeye, or Yellow buckeye, is Æ. flava.

A key adapted to open only one of a set of locks; -- distinguished from a master key.

ion. "A deep and choky voice." Aytoun. The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey. T. Hughes.