Word Meanings - MORDENTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An embellishment resembling a trill.

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• TRILLION
  According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• TRILL
  To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle. Sir W. Scott. And now and then an ample tear trilled down Her delicate cheek. Shak. Whispered sounds Of waters, trilling from the riven stone. Glover. (more info)
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• TRILLING
  A compound crystal, consisting of three individuals. (more info) 1. One of tree children born at the same birth. Wright.
• TRILLIUM
  A genus of liliaceous plants; the three-leaved nightshade; -- so called because all the parts of the plant are in threes.
• TRILLACHAN
  The oyster catcher.
• EMBELLISHMENT
  1. The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment. In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishment of it. Prescott. 2. That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments. The
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• TRILLO
  A trill or shake. See Trill.
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• PRALLTRILLER
  A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; --called also the inverted mordente.
• NONRESEMBLANCE
  Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.