Word Meanings - FLAUTIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A player on the flute; a flutist.

Related words: (words related to FLAUTIST)

• FLUTED
  1. Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes. Busby. 2. Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.
• FLUTEMOUTH
  A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.
• PLAYER
  1. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak. 2. One who plays any game. 3. A dramatic actor. Shak. 4. One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16. 5. A gamester;
• FLUTER
  1. One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist. 2. One who makes grooves or flutings.
• FLUTE A BEC
  A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.
• FLUTIST
  A performer on the flute; a flautist. Busby. 2. To move with quick vibrations or undulations; as, a sail flutters in the wind; a fluttering fan. 3. To move about briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result. No rag, no
• FLUTE
  A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n. 3. A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material,
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• STAGEPLAYER
  An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
• SCRATCH PLAYER; SCRATCH RUNNER
  One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.
• SWORDPLAYER
  A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.