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Word Meanings - MUSETTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone. 2. An air adapted to this instrument; also, a kind of rustic dance.

Related words: (words related to MUSETTE)

  • DANCER
    One who dances or who practices dancing. The merry dancers, beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.
  • SWEETLY
    In a sweet manner.
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • SWEETISH
    Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
  • SWEETING
    1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
  • SWEETHEART
    A lover of mistress.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • 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
  • ADAPTABLE
    Capable of being adapted.
  • SWEETROOT
    Licorice.
  • RUSTICAL
    Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.
  • FORMERLY
    In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • SWEETENING
    1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
  • RUSTICATE
    To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. Pope.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • RUSTICITY
    The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric
  • SWEETEN
    Etym: 1. To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea. 2. To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship. 3. To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper. 4. To make less painful
  • SWEETNESS
    The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
  • ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
    See ASCENDENCY
  • COUNTRY-DANCE
    See MACUALAY
  • AIDANCE
    Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • TENDANCE
    1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.

 

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