Word Meanings - DRONEPIPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe.

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• TONSILITIC
  Tonsilar.
• TONSURE
  1. The act of clipping the hair, or of shaving the crown of the head; also, the state of being shorn. The first ceremony used for devoting a person to the service of God and the church; the first degree of the clericate, given by a bishop, abbot,
• TONGUELET
  A little tongue.
• TONNE
  A tun. Chaucer.
• TONNAGE
  1. The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship. 2. The cubical content or burden of a vessel, or vessels, in tons; or, the amount of weight which one or several vessels may carry. See Ton, n. . A fleet . . . with an aggregate tonnage of 60,000
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• TONITE
  An explosive compound; a preparation of gun cotton.
• TONICAL
  Tonic. Sir T. Browne.
• TONGKANG
  A kind of boat or junk used in the seas of the Malay Archipelago.
• TONGUESTER
  One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
• TONTINE INSURANCE
  Insurance in which the benefits of the insurance are distributed upon the tontine principle. Under the old, or full tontine, plan, all benefits were forfeited on lapsed policies, on the policies of those who died within the tontine period only the
• BAGPIPE
  A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland. Note: It consists of a leather bag, which receives the air by a tube that is stopped by a valve; and three sounding pipes, into which the air is pressed by the performer.
• TONIC
  Increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring heatly functions. Tononic spasm. See the Note under Spasm. (more info) 1. Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically , applied to, or
• TONNEAU
  1. In France, a light-wheeled vehicle with square or rounded body and rear entrance. 2. Orig., the after part of the body with entrance at the rear ; now, one with sides closing in the seat or seats and entered by a door usually at the side,
• TONOMETER
  An instrument for determining the rate of vibrations in tones. An apparatus for studying and registering the action of various fluids and drugs on the excised heart of lower animals. An instrument for measuring tension, esp. that of the eyeball.
• TONSOR
  A barber. Sir W. Scott.
• TONGUED
  Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne.
• TONGUE-TIED
  1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short frænum. 2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak.
• BUTTONHOLE
  The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• CAPSTONE
  A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• HYDROPERITONEUM
  See ASCITES
• HUTTONING
  Forcible manipulation of a dislocated, stiff, or painful joint.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• KARYOMITON
  The reticular network of fine fibers, of which the nucleus of a cell is in part composed; -- in opposition to kytomiton, or the network in the body of the cell. W. Flemming.
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• PHITONESS
  Pythoness; witch.
• RUBSTONE
  A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• ASTONISH
  étonner, fr. L. ex out + tonare to thunder, but perhaps influenced by 1. To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow. The very cramp-fish . . . being herself not benumbed, is able to astonish others. Holland. 2. To strike with sudden
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• EMPROSTHOTONOS
  A drawing of the body forward, in consequence of the spasmodic action of some of the muscles. Gross.
• MELOCOTON; MELOCOTOON
  peach tree and its fruit, L. malum cotonium, or cotonea, or Cydonia, A quince. A kind of peach having one side deep red, and the flesh yellow.
• MONOTONE
  A single unvaried tone or sound.
• TETRASPASTON
  A machine in which four pulleys act together. Brande & C.