The watch-word among highwaymen, signifying the person is a friend, and must pass unmolested. Music is also an Irish term, in tossing up, to express the harp side, or reverse, of a farthing or halfpenny, opposed to the head.
·noun Love of music; capacity of enjoying music. II. Music ·noun Harmony; an accordant combination ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Jubal was the inventor of musical instruments (Gen. 4:21). The Hebrews were much given to the cultiv...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
The most ancient music.-The inventor of musical instruments, like the first poet and the first forge...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·add. ·- An opera in which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias, duets, ·etc., the m...
·add. ·- A place for public musical entartainments; specif. (·Eng.), ·esp. a public hall for vaudevi...
Among instruments of music used by the Hebrews a principal place is given to stringed instruments. T...
The squalling and crying of children. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Saucepans, frying-paps, poker and tongs, marrow-bones and cleavers, bulls horns, &c. beaten upon and...
A term applied to anything tedious. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
Rolling shot about on the lower deck, and other discordant noises, when seamen are discontented, but...
The Sailor's Word-Book
In Tallis Street, Whitefriars. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.