Word Meanings - GLOCKENSPIEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.

Related words: (words related to GLOCKENSPIEL)

• PLAY
  quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
• METALOGICAL
  Beyond the scope or province of logic.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• METALLIC
  Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
• PLAYTE
  See PLEYT
• SERIES DYNAMO
  A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• METALLIFORM
  Having the form or structure of a metal.
• SERIES MOTOR
  A series-wound motor. A motor capable of being used in a series circuit.
• GIVING
  1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving
• TUNNAGE
  See TONNAGE
• METALLIFACTURE
  The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park.
• METALLOGRAPH
  A print made by metallography.
• METALLINE
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties. Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water.
• METALLOPHONE
  An instrument like a pianoforte, but having metal bars instead of strings. An instrument like the xylophone, but having metallic instead of wooden bars.
• METALLICLY
  In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
• METALLICAL
  See METALLIC
• METALEPTIC
  Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a metalepsis. 2. Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle.
• STUNNER
  1. One who, or that which, stuns. 2. Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence. Thackeray.
• STUNDIST
  One of a large sect of Russian dissenters founded, about 1860, in the village of Osnova, near Odessa, by a peasant, Onishchenko, who had apparently been influenced by a German sect settled near there. They zealously practice Bible reading and reject
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
• STUNSAIL
  A contraction of Studding sail. With every rag set, stunsails, sky scrapers and all. Lowell.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• THANKSGIVING
  1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee
• BIMETALLIST
  An advocate of bimetallism.
• NONMETAL
  Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.
• MEDAL PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.