Flute

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A long French breakfast roll.

II. Flute ·noun A kind of flyboat; a storeship.

III. Flute ·noun A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound.

IV. Flute ·vi To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.

V. Flute ·vt To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, ·etc.

VI. Flute ·vt To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.

VII. Flute ·noun A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, ·esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.

VIII. Flute ·vi A channel of curved section;

— usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. ·see ·Illust. under Base, ·noun.

IX. Flute ·vi A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole.

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