Castrato: alternatives and connections

Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, be…

A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing…

A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and…

The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.

The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table.

Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by orna…

A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's a…

A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head vo…

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A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a ver…

A thundering; thunder.

A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair.

Evil; wicked; bad.

A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.

Having a medium compass between the soprano and contralto; -- said of the voice of a female singer.

The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so. The word is als…

Treatment for restoring or improving the voice.