Word Meanings - PANDEAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or relating to the god Pan. Pandean pipes, a primitive wind instrument, consisting of a series of short hollow reeds or pipes, graduated in length by the musical scale, and fastened together side by side; a syrinx; a mouth organ; -- said to have
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Of or relating to the god Pan. Pandean pipes, a primitive wind instrument, consisting of a series of short hollow reeds or pipes, graduated in length by the musical scale, and fastened together side by side; a syrinx; a mouth organ; -- said to have been invented by Pan. Called also Pan's pipes and Panpipes.
Related words: (words related to PANDEAN)
- HOLLOW-HEARTED
Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous. - ORGANISTA
Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song. - RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - SCALENE
A triangle having its sides and angles unequal. - ORGANICALNESS
The quality or state of being organic. - 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 - PRIMITIVENESS
The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice. - GRADUATOR
1. One who determines or indicates graduation; as, a graduator of instruments. 2. An instrument for dividing any line, right or curve, into small, regular intervals. 3. An apparatus for diffusing a solution, as brine or vinegar, over - SHORT-WITED
Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment. - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - SERIES DYNAMO
A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others. - ORGANOLOGY
1. The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure. The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Quincey. 2. That branch of biology - ORGANDIE; ORGANDY
A kind of transparent light muslin. - PANDEAN
Of or relating to the god Pan. Pandean pipes, a primitive wind instrument, consisting of a series of short hollow reeds or pipes, graduated in length by the musical scale, and fastened together side by side; a syrinx; a mouth organ; -- said to have - ORGANOGRAPHIST
One versed in organography. - ORGANOGRAPHY
A description of the organs of animals or plants. - ORGAN
A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action , which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs - CONSIST
1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. - FASTENER
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm. - SHORT CIRCUIT
A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. - FREEDSTOOL
See FRIDSTOL - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - PHILOMUSICAL
Loving music. Busby. - GUNTER'S SCALE
A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales - PRELATISM
Prelacy; episcopacy. - PRELATIZE
To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey. - MISRELATION
Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall. - INORGANICAL
Inorganic. Locke. - LOUD-MOUTHED
Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.