Carillon: alternatives and connections

The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the…

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.

A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork.

The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3.

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An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of…

A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus m…

Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.

That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwo…

Formed like a finger or fingers; finger-shaped; as, a digitiform root.

A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.

Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.

To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring;…

One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb.

See 1st Frith.

A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by mean…