Word Meanings - GITTERN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An instrument like a guitar. "Harps, lutes, and giternes." Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to GITTERN)

• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• LUTESCENT
  Of a yellowish color.
• INSTRUMENTALITY
  The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
• INSTRUMENTATION
  1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical
• INSTRUMENTALLY
  1. By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end. South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke. 2. With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied. Mason.
• INSTRUMENT
  A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc. Burrill. 4. One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium,
• INSTRUMENTALISM
  The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n. Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these
• LUTESTRING
  A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon. Goldsmith.
• GUITAR
  A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut, -- played upon with the fingers.
• INSTRUMENTALIST
  One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.
• HARPSICHON
  A harpsichord.
• INSTRUMENTALNESS
  Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality. Hammond.
• HARPSICHORD
  A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano.
• INSTRUMENTIST
  A performer on a musical instrument; an instrumentalist.
• INSTRUMENTARY
  Instrumental.
• SHARPSAW
  The great titmouse; -- so called from its harsh call notes.
• SHARPSHOOTING
  A shooting with great precision and effect; hence, a keen contest of wit or argument.
• SHARPSHOOTER
  One skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman.