Cornet: alternatives and connections

(of a musical instrument) the second highest instrument in a family of musical instruments

An obsolete form of admiral.

To make old, or obsolete; to make antique; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use; hence, to make void, or abrogate.

Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law.

Of or pertaining to a reed; resembling the reed or cane.

An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.

A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms…

Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now gi…

A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase "Blindman's buff."

An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads.

Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.

A chinese reed instrument, with tubes, blown by the mouth.

A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrum…

A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.

A reed instrument, related to the oboe, but deeper in pitch; the English horn.

An obsolete name for the cornet-a-piston.

A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe.

Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the…