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One of the constellations; Lyra. See Lyra. Lyre bat (Zoöl.), a small bat (Megaderma lyra), inhabiting India and Ceylon. It is remarkable for the enormous size and curious shape of the nose membrane and ears. -- Lyre turtle (Zoöl.), the leatherback.

or having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting New South Wales, is about the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-…

A genus of evergreen plants growing along the shores of the Mediterranean, and breading a fruit resembling that of the olive.

The calf of the leg. [Obs.] Wyclif (Deut. xxviii. 35).

To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre. Dryden.

To accommodate; to make suitable; to adapt. Arts . . . attempered to the lyre. Pope.

An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.

The lyre bird.

Abounding with charms. "His charmful lyre." Cowley.

A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.

A lyre with seven chords.

Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf.

Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.

Having a lyre-shaped shoulder girdle, as certain fishes.

The act of playing on a lyre or harp. G. Eliot.

A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry. Shelley.

is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.

Of or pertaining to the Phæacians, a fabulous seafaring people fond of the feast, the lyre, and the dance, mentioned by Homer.

A glucoside extracted from Phillyrea as a bitter white crystalline substance. It is sometimes used as a febrifuge.

A kind of lyre used by the Greeks. Mrs. Browning.