Trombone: alternatives and connections

An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It l…

Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied…

To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.

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 very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood,…

Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.

A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nu…

The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more gene…

An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.

A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.

A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electri…

A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the pictu…

The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, wheth…

An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc.

The joint of a finger, particularly when made prominent by the closing of the fingers.

A kind of brass hammered into thin sheets, formerly much used for making church utensils, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; -- called al…

An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the g…