seacoal

October 9, 1677. "John Thompson of Setauket has a permit to go to Flushing and other parts of Long Island to search for sea-coal, of which he hath probable information."

1896, Martha Bockée Flint (1841-1900), Early Long Island, a colonial study, Liveright, page 22:

coal from inside the sea: mineral coal that washes up from the sea onto beaches, from which it can be collected and sold.

(historical, chiefly Southern England) coal from across the sea: mineral coal, as opposed to charcoal, in a time and place in which the former arrived by ship and the latter arrived overland (such as London in Elizabethan times).

2020, Ruth Goodman, The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal Into Victorian Homes Changed Everything, Liveright, →ISBN, page xvii:
And the change came fast. In 1570 there was still little sign of any major divergence from the traditional use of wood as fuel. Less than forty years later, in 1607, a case brought by the Crown in the Star Chamber stated as fact that ‘sea coal’ — a name for the coal that arrived in London by ship from Newcastle — was ‘the ordinary and usual fuel … almost everywhere in every man's house’. A single generation had made the switch.

(historical, technical, chiefly US) coal to be used at sea: a certain class of mineral coal, especially suitable for the steam engines of ships at sea and locomotives.

Such coal used in foundry practice, intermixed with foundry sand or applied in a layer on its face, to modify the behavior of the molten metal.


leading tone

(music) scale degree seven when the first scale degree is one half step higher than the seventh scale degree


dyneme

en-noun

dyneme (countable and uncountable, plural dynemes)

Polyethylene with a very high molecular weight.


viola clef

Derived from its usage primarily in viola music.

A musical symbol of the Western classical tradition, indicating the pitch of written notes.


perfect fourth

The word perfect refers to the fact that so-called perfect intervals are neither major nor minor.

The perfect fourth has a pitch ratio close to 4:3.

A musical interval spanning four degrees of the diatonic scale. In the Western twelve-semitone system, it consists of five standard semitones.


4-3 suspension

A musical device, commonplace in the Western classical tradition, whereby a suspension is formed through a note a fourth above the bass which resolves to a third.


yé-yé

yé-yé (countable and uncountable, plural yé-yés)

From French yéyé, from English yeah-yeah.

[…] she (Françoise Hardy) is so today, so white boots and yé-yé, that she can make anyone over 25 (me) feel prehistoric, raccoon coat and rah-rah.

1966 December 18, Joan Barthel, “Francoise from France: White Boots and Ye-Ye”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(uncountable, music) A genre of pop music of the early 1960s in Europe.


funkabilly

(music) A subgenre of popular music that blends rockabilly with funk.


mathcore

While all that herky-jerky mathcore in your collection might not fit the bill, put some Portishead on your Pod and the attached OhMiBod will respond rhythmically in kind.

(music) A rhythmically complex and dissonant style of metalcore music.


jazzcore

Their new jazzcore outing is everything the men in furs are not: chaotic, uncontrolled, sloppy, and low-fi.

1997, CMJ New Music Monthly, number 41, page 46:

(music) An aggressive style of jazz with hardcore punk elements.


Frenchcore

(music) A French style of rave or gabber music.


funkcore

Five songs of spunky funkcore. Bouncy, peppy stuff with annoying tempo changes and whiny singing.

1995, Maximum Rock 'n' Roll, number 142:

And even if you really want to, you can always buy your suit on the cheap from Overstock.com, hope nobody notices, and use the $500 you saved to buy studio time for your new indie-funkcore-folk band.

2006, New Zealand Centre for Independent Studies, Policy, volume 22:

(music) An aggressive style of funk music influenced by rock or metal.


darkcore

From dark + -core, perhaps from the 1993 track Darkcore by Two Dark Troopers, released on Basement Records.

Of course, even amid the beeps and beats good old guitar music never went away, and there are plenty of indie, punk and alternative bands gigging to appreciative audiences, as well as the resolutely grim Gothic and darkcore fringe.

2002, Andrea Schulte-Peevers, Berlin, page 36:

(music) A subgenre of jungle music with morbid, horror-based themes.


pornocore

[…]pornocore rap, a subgenre of hardcore rap that features only sexual graphic lyrics and themes[…]

2009, Ramona Demetriou, Programmatic Presentations in the Songs of African American Female Singers, page 91:

(music) A style of hip-hop music with sexually explicit themes.


skacore

TVT's Buck-O-Nine will deliver more San Diego skacore on "Libido" in September.

1998, Billboard, volume 110, number 34, page 59:

Cut for cut, Pay Attention is another step in songwriting evolution for the once-plaid-clad architects of the fusion of punk rock and Afro-Caribbean dance music known as skacore.

2000, CMJ New Music Monthly, number 81, page 47:

(music) A genre that blends ska music with hardcore punk.


cuddlecore

[…]the syrupy cuddlecore of bands like cub and Shonen Knife.

(music, informal) A twee, childlike style of alternative rock.


happycore

Shortening, equivalent to happy + -core.

In large part, happycore was the result of an exodus of white ravers from the jungle scene, in reaction to the influx of black youth and the attendant mood change from bonhomie to surliness.

2013, Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, page 291:


nardcore

From Oxnard + -core, to rhyme with hardcore.

A hardcore punk movement in Southern California in the early 1980s.


breakcore

The head-on collision between DJ Ricky Rabbit's fractured breakcore and MC Vulture Voltaire's fuming invective is a spectacle of almost physical impossibility, like trying to rap along to an earthquake while getting tased[…]

2008, SPIN, volume 24, number 2, page 93:

Where breakcore picks up on rave's daftness, dubstep fixates on its darkness, sometimes to a shlocky degree[…]

2008, Marc Masters, Weasel Walter, Rob Young, No Wave:

(music) A style of electronic music characterised by a high tempo, complex and intricate breakbeats, and a wide palette of samples from various sources, especially the "Amen break".


Nintendocore

From Nintendo (“Japanese multinational video game company”) + -core (suffix denoting a music genre, especially one influenced by hardcore music), with reference to the simplistic sound effects of early video game consoles. The word was coined by the American musician Nathan Winneke, the frontman of the metalcore band Horse the Band, as a joke; the band posted the word on the Internet and also printed it on a label on the compact disc of their first demo I Am a Small Wooden Statue on a Patch of Crabgrass Next to a Dried Up Riverbed (2001).

coinage

Did you ever wonder what it would be like to mix the theme song from the original Mario Bros. games with chugging guitars and the vocal stylings of someone who wasn't hugged enough as a child? You're not alone. In fact, there's an entire genre of music devoted to this sound – it's called nintendocore. Growing out of metalcore – a fusion of heavy metal and punk – nintendocore derives its distinctive sound from the use of synths reminiscent of mid-eighties video games.

2009 November 2, Amy Plachta, “You Never Knew You Loved … Nintendocore a Unique Sound Worth Exploring”, in Interrobang: Fanshawe College’s Student Voice, volume 42, number 11, London, Ont.: Fanshawe College Student Union, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-31:

In the ever-changing landscape of music, that's given way to such genres as emo, screamo, nu metal and Nintendocore, one question remains! Does anyone play rock music anymore?

2010 May, Jake Brown, Alice in Chains: In the Studio, Nashville, Tenn.: Rock ’N’ Roll Books, →ISBN:

At the time of writing, Spotify currently lists over 4,000 online categories and sub-categories of music ranging from Nintendocore – a genre delineated solely by the overlay of bludgeoning, bowel-stewing grunge riffs on old-school videogame soundtracks – to Pornogrind, a maximum security subgenre of Grindcore (a convulsing fusion of rawboned, buzz-sawing death metal and tightly coiled hardcore punk).

2020, Kevin Dutton, Black and White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN:

In the US, a well-known Brooklyn music venue hosted a Minecraft concert featuring much loved bands[…]. The sprawling nightclub was painstakingly recreated and featured performances from the popular emo act American Football, "Nintendocore" videogame musicians Anamanaguchi and electronic artist Baths[…].

2020, Larissa Hjorth, Ingrid Richardson, Hugh Davies, William Balmford, “Playing during and post COVID-19 Pandemic”, in Exploring Minecraft: Ethnographies of Play and Creativity (Palgrave Games in Context), Cham, Zug, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 171:

(music, video games) An aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes (“music that samples or emulates the audio capabilities of older sound chips”) and video game music.

Nintendocore

aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music


sticheron

en-noun

sticheron (plural sticherons or stichera)

From Greek στιχηρό (stichiró), from Ancient Greek στιχηρός (stikhērós, “written in lines”).

der

A hymn, often written in cycles and sung in alternation with psalm verses, used in the Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite.


G-flat major

{\key ges \major ges'aes'bes'cesdeseesfges2}

(music) a major key with the notes G♭, A♭, B♭, C♭, D♭, E♭, and F, the key signature of which has 6 flats.

(music) The major chord with a root of G.


C-sharp major

{\key cis \major cis'dis'eis'fis'gis'ais'bis'cis2}

(music) a key with the notes C♯, D♯, E♯, F♯, G♯, A♯, and B♯, the key signature of which has seven sharps:

(music) a chord with the notes C♯, E♯, and G♯:


C-flat major

{\key ces \major ces'des'es'fes'ges'aes'bes'ces2}

(music) a major key with the notes C♭, D♭, E♭, F♭, G♭, A♭, B♭, the key signature of which has seven flats:

(music) a chord with the notes C♭, E♭, and G♭:


F-sharp major

{\key fis\major fis'gis'ais'b'cisdiseisfis2}

(music) a musical key with the notes F♯, G♯, A♯, B, C♯, D♯, and E♯, the key signature of which has 6 sharps

(music) a musical chord with the notes F♯, A♯, and C♯


generic interval

en-noun

generic interval (plural generic intervals)

(music) the distance between notes only regarding the distance on the staff


perfect interval

perfect interval (plural perfect intervals)

(music) an interval that is either a unison, fourth, fifth, or an octave


major interval

(music) an interval that is either a major second, major third, major sixth, or a major seventh


diminished interval

diminished interval (plural diminished intervals)

(music) An interval that is decreased from either a minor interval or a perfect interval.


augmented interval

augmented interval (plural augmented intervals)

(music) An interval that is increased one half step from either a major interval or a perfect interval.


minor interval

(music) an interval that is either a minor second, minor third, minor sixth, or a minor seventh


minor second

(music) an interval that is equivalent to the difference between the third and fourth degrees of a diatonic major scale.


major second

(music) An interval in Western music that approximates a frequency ratio of 9/8 or 10/9, less commonly 8/7.


rockism

Near as a body could tell from here, rockism wasn’t just liking Yes and the Allman Brothers — it was liking London Calling.

1990 January 2, Robert Christgau, “1980–1989: Rockism Faces the World”, in The Village Voice:

The rockism debate began in earnest in the early 1980's, but over the past few years it has heated up, and today, in certain impassioned circles, there is simply nothing worse than a rockist.

2004 October 31, Kelefa Sanneh, “The Rap Against Rockism”, in The New York Times:

You literally can't fight rockism, because the language of righteous struggle is the language of rockism itself.

2005, J. T. LeRoy, Paul Bresnick, Da Capo best music writing 2005, page 133:

If the idea of rockism confused you, and you lazily thought Pink Floyd were automatically better than Gang of Four, and that good music had stopped with punk, you were a rockist and you were wrong.

2006 May 25, Paul Morley, “Rockism - it's the new rockism”, in The Guardian:

Broadly speaking, rockism is the belief that rock is the most important form of popular music[…]

2008, Philip Auslander, Liveness: performance in a mediatized culture, page 126:

(derogatory) A kind of music snobbery that views rock music as superior or normative and values music with "authentic" production values over modern "manufactured" and electronic forms.


worldbeat

DJ King Scratch will spin worldbeat music all night, including Byron Lee's calypso, Machito's salsa, and Segun Adawale's African high-life.

1989 May 26, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:

Diners sit amongst peaceful concrete trees and plastic leaves, listening to soothing worldbeat music; renderings of globes appear throughout, as do references to FoodlifeUs massive recycling program and the healthiness of the establishment's victuals.

1996 April 12, Tom Frank, “Capital Lies: Swallow it Whole”, in Chicago Reader:

Sawt El Atlas delivers what the worldbeat bands of the 80s couldn't: instead of being grafted onto native forms, the Western elements are seamlessly incorporated.

2001 July 13, Peter Margasak, “Sawt El Atlas”, in Chicago Reader:

(music) A music genre that blends Western pop music with traditional folk music or world music.


G-sharp minor

{\key gis\minor gis'ais'b'cisdisefisgis2}

(music) a minor key with the notes G♯, A♯, B, C♯, D♯, E, F♯

(music) the minor chord with a root of G-sharp


A-sharp minor

{\key ais\minor ais'bis'cisdiseisfisgisais2}

(music) a minor key with the notes A♯, B♯, C♯, D♯, E♯, F♯, G♯

(music) the minor chord with a root of A-sharp


B-flat minor

{\key bes\minor bes c'des'es'f'ges'aes'bes'2}

(music) a minor key with the notes B♭, C, D♭, E♭, F, G♭, A♭

(music) a minor chord with a root of B♭.


C-sharp minor

{\key cis\minor cis'dis'e'fis'gis'a'b'cis2}

(music) a minor key with the notes C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, A, B

(music) the minor chord with a root of C-sharp


D-sharp minor

{\key dis\minor dis'eis'fis'gis'ais'b'cisdis2}

(music) a minor key with the notes D♯, E♯, F♯, G♯, A♯, B, C♯

(music) the minor chord with a root of D-sharp


A-flat minor

{\key aes\minor aes bes ces'des'es'fes'ges'aes'2}

(music) a minor key with the notes A♭, B♭, C♭, D♭, E♭, F♭, and G♭

(music) the minor chord with a root of A-flat


F-sharp minor

{\key fis\minor fis'gis'a'b'cisdefis2}

(music) a minor key with the notes F♯, G♯, A, B, C♯, D, E

(music) the minor chord with a root of F-sharp


F minor

{\key f\minor f'g'aes'bes'cdesesf2}

(music) a minor key with the notes F, G, A♭, B♭, C, D♭, E♭

(music) the minor chord with a root of F


B minor

{\key b\minor b'cisdefisgab2}

(music) a minor key with the notes B, C♯, D, E, F♯, G, A

(music) the minor chord with a root of B


D minor

{\key d\minor d'e'f'g'a'bes'cd2}

(music) A minor key with the notes D, E, F, G, A, B♭, C.

(music) The minor chord with a root of D.


relative key

(music, chiefly in the plural) A key with the same key signature as another key.


parallel key

(music, chiefly in the plural) A key with the same tonic as another key.


E minor

{\key e\minor e'fis'g'a'b'cde2}

(music) a minor key with the notes E, F♯, G, A, B, C, and D

(music) the minor chord with a root of E


G minor

{\key g\minor g'a'bes'cdesfg2}

(music) a minor key with the notes G, A, B♭, C, D, E♭, F

(music) the minor chord with a root of G


E-flat minor

{\key es\minor es'f'ges'aes'bes'cesdeses2}

(music) a minor key with the notes E♭, F, G♭, A♭, B♭, C♭, D♭

(music) the minor chord with a root of E-flat


C minor

{\key c\minor c'd'es'f'g'aes'bes'c2}

(music) a minor key with the notes C, D, E♭, F, G, A♭, B♭/B

(music) the minor chord with a root of C


decad

Doublet of decade. By surface analysis, dec- + -ad.

(music) A group of ten notes from which the consonant triads may be constructed


karnay

a long trumpet or horn made of brass or copper, used as a traditional instrument in Uzbekistan and other parts of Central Asia


extension block

extension block (plural extension blocks)


surge protector

surge protector (plural surge protectors)

An appliance designed to protect electrical devices from voltage spikes by limiting the voltage supplied to an electric device by either blocking or by shorting to ground any unwanted voltages above a safe threshold.

突波保護器

ustrójstvo zaščíty ot ímpulʹsnyx perenaprjažénij

устро́йство защи́ты от и́мпульсных перенапряже́ний


the night before last

During the night before last night; two nights ago.

vorgestern Nacht (compare vorgestern Abend)


fraccing

I have also heard from geologists who say they spell it fraccing, and one who says it's fracting with a silent t.

2009 June 25, Ed Quillen, “Fracking, fracing or fraccing?”, in High Country News, Paonia, CO:

Fraccing is the process of creating cracks in underground coal seams to increase the flow and recovery of gas or oil out of a well.

2012, Queensland Government, “Hydraulic fracturing (fraccing) in CSG wells”, in Department of Environmental and Resource Management, archived from the original on 2011-04-01:

Moreover, the industry has a great deal of experience with fraccing. More than a million wells have been fracced in the United States since the first frac job six decades ago.

2012 January 3, Ralph Benko, “Daniel Yergin's The Quest”, in Forbes:

Fraccing fluids contain proppants that forced into the natural fractures of fissures of the rock under pressure.

2014, Alireza Bahadori, Natural Gas Processing: Technology and Engineering Design (Technology and Engineering), Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN:

(oil industry) Alternative spelling of fracking


Locrian mode

Starting on the note C, a Locrian mode produces a scale with the notes C, D♭, E♭, F, G♭, A♭, B♭, C

{c'des'es'f'ges'aes'bes'c}

(music) A mode whose scale is the same as a natural minor scale except with the second and fifth scale degrees lowered by one half step each, yielding the interval pattern (semitone - tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone).


crossfeed

(sound) The process of blending the left and right channels of a stereo recording.


crossfeed

en-verb

crossfeed (third-person singular simple present crossfeeds, present participle crossfeeding, simple past and past participle crossfed)

crossfeeds (present singular third-person)
crossfeeding (participle present)
crossfed (participle past)
crossfed (past)

(sound) To blend the left and right channels of a stereo recording.


country rock

en-noun

country rock (countable and uncountable, plural country rocks)

(music, uncountable) A genre of music combining elements of country music and rock music.

xenolith

when present as an inclusion in igneous rock from a local magma source


augmented seventh

augmented seventh (plural augmented sevenths)

An augmented seventh on C:
1

(music) an interval that is equivalent to widening a major seventh by one chromatic semitone. In twelve-tone equal temperament, it is equivalent to an octave.


augmented sixth

augmented sixth (plural augmented sixths)

An augmented sixth on C:
1

(music) an interval that is equivalent to a major sixth widened by one chromatic semitone. In twelve-tone equal temperament, this is equivalent to a minor seventh.


diminished second

diminished second (plural diminished seconds)

(music) an interval that is equivalent to a major second lowered by two chromatic semitones, or a minor second narrowed by a chromatic semitone. In twelve-tone equal temperament, this interval is equal to a unison, but in most other tunings, it is a distinct interval.


perfect unison

(music) an interval that has no difference between two notes


diminished third

diminished third (plural diminished thirds)

(music) An interval that is equivalent to a minor third narrowed by one chromatic semitone. In twelve-tone equal temperament, this is equivalent to a major second.


augmented unison

augmented unison (plural augmented unisons)

An augmented unison on A:
1

(music) an interval that is equivalent to a unison with one of the two notes altered by a chromatic semitone


augmented third

augmented third (plural augmented thirds)

An augmented third on C:
1

(music) an interval that is equivalent to a major third widened by one chromatic semitone. In twelve-tone equal temperament, this is equivalent to a perfect fourth.


diminished sixth

diminished sixth (plural diminished sixths)

(music) an interval that is formed by chromatically lowering the upper note of a minor sixth.


diminished ninth

diminished ninth (plural diminished ninths)

(music) an interval that is equivalent to narrowing a minor ninth by one chromatic semitone. In twelve-tone equal temperament, it is equivalent to an octave.


major ninth

(music) An interval that is one chromatic semitone wider than a minor ninth.


piceous

en-adj

piceous (comparative more piceous, superlative most piceous)

more piceous (comparative)
most piceous (superlative)

From Latin piceus (“like pitch; pitch-black”) + -ous (suffix forming adjectives denoting possession or presence of a quality). Piceus is derived from pix (“pitch, tar”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat; milk”)) + -eus (suffix forming adjectives indicating the sources of attributes). The English word is cognate with Italian piceo (“like pitch; of a dark brown colour”), Spanish piceo (“like pitch; of a dark brown colour”).

cog

I do not therefore require of you to believe, that the ancient rocks and compact bodies were diſſolved, but that many new ones were formed by the deluge, which had incloſed the ſpoils of the ſea within them. [...] What other rational account will you give of that ſhell of a nautilus, which was found buried in a ſtratum of a piceous ſubstance below the bed of the river Arbis, where Artaxerxes commanded a bridge to be built over it?

1741, Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke et al., “Letter XCIX. Otanes, Chief Architect and Superintendent of the Royal Places, to Cleander.”, in Athenian Letters: or, The Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of Persia, Residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War. […], London: James Bettenham, →OCLC; Athenian Letters: … In Two Volumes, new edition, volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] Cadell Jun. and W[illiam] Davies […], 1798, →OCLC, page 425:

(obsolete, rare) Of or pertaining to pitch (“a sticky, dark brown substance obtained from distilling turpentine or wood tar, or crude oil or tar”); having a quality like pitch; pitchlike, pitchy.

piceo

of or pertaining to pitch; having a quality like pitch

piceous:

Piciroſtris. Oblong, black: ſilvery-ſilky: ſnout half way and legs piceous.

1806, Charles Linné [i.e., Carl Linnaeus], William Turton, A General System of Nature, through the Three Grand Kingdoms of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, […] In Seven Volumes, volume II (Animal Kingdom), part I (Insects), London: Printed [by Dewick & Clarke] for Lackington, Allen, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 215:

The colour of the upper part is a mixture of yellowish-white and piceous disposed in dots, exactly resembling mosaic work, [...]

1828 June 17, Thomas Bell, “VII. Description of a New Species of Agama, Brought from the Columbia River by Mr. [David] Douglass.”, in The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, volume XVI, London: Printed by Richard Taylor, […]; and by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, […]; and William Wood, […], published 1833, →OCLC, pages 105–106:

Abdomen with shining cinereous tomentum, and with five lines of piceous spots; [...] Tibiæ piceous towards the tips; tarsi piceous.

1868 February 6, Andrew Murray, “On an Undescribed Light-giving Coleopterous Larva (Provisionally Named Astraptor illuminator)”, in The Journal of the Linnean Society. Zoology, volume X, London: Sold at the [Linnean] Society [of London]’s apartments, […]; and by Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, and Williams and Norgate, published 1870, →OCLC, paragraph 16, page 90:

Front and middle legs yellow, coxae black behind, femora piceous posteriorly; [...]

1940 September, R. A. Cushman, A Review of the Parasitic Wasps of the Ichneumonid Genus Exenterus Hartig (United States Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication; no. 354), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 12:

Agabus elongatus [...] Legs rufous; metafemur piceous.

1995, Anders N. Nilsson, Mogens Holmen, “Subfamily Colymbetinae”, in N. P. Kristensen, editor, The Aquatic Adephagia (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. II. Dytiscidae (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica), volume 32, Leiden, New York, N.Y.: E[vert] J[an] Leiden, →ISBN, →ISSN, paragraph 95, page 110:

From the year of its establishment, darkness seemed to have found a home in Beet College. Dark pink for the brick buildings, dark green for the doorjambs and the benches, dark iron for the hinges, dark stone for Nathaniel's Tomb; darkness in the piceous roots of trees that broke through the earth like bones through skin.

2008, Roger Rosenblatt, chapter 1, in Beet: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Ecco Press, →ISBN:

Gyrophaenia uteana Casey [...] [H]ead piceous, pronotum dark rufo-testaceous to piceous; elytra reddish-brown with sutural region and posterior angles piceous, abdomen yellowish- or reddish-brown, apical portion often darker, piceous; [...]

2018, Jan Klimaszewski et al., “Tribe Homalotini Heer, 1839”, in Aleocharine Rove Beetles of Eastern Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae): A Glimpse of Megadiversity, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, paragraph 162, page 378:

(chiefly entomology) Resembling pitch in colour; a very dark brown.


diminished triad

en-noun

diminished triad (plural diminished triads)

(music) a triad that has a diminished fifth between the bottom note and the top note


major triad

(music) a triad that has a major third between the root and the third and a minor third between the third and the fifth


augmented triad

augmented triad (plural augmented triads)

C major augmented triad:
1

(music) a triad with an augmented fifth between the bottom note and the top note


minor triad

(music) a triad with a minor third between the root and the third, and a major third between the third and the fifth


seventh chord

The interval between the tonic and the top note is a seventh.

Four seventh chords (C7 F7 D7 G7):
{2}

(music) a chord that contains four notes that make three thirds


fuguist

(archaic) A musician who composes or performs fugues.


jack-a-dandy

(New Zealand) A small patch of light reflected from a shiny surface onto another surface such as a wall or ceiling.


lightful

en-adj

lightful (comparative more lightful, superlative most lightful)

more lightful (comparative)
most lightful (superlative)

From light (“not weighed down”, adjective) + -ful (“full of, having”, adjective).


augmented ninth

en-noun

augmented ninth (plural augmented ninths)

An augmented ninth on C
1

(music) an interval that is one octave wider than an augmented second


huqin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 胡琴 (húqín).

Any of a family of vertical bowed lutes used in Chinese music.


half cadence

(music) a cadence that moves up from a tonic, supertonic, mediant, or subdominant chord to a dominant triad


distune

en-verb

distune (third-person singular simple present distunes, present participle distuning, simple past and past participle distuned)

distunes (present singular third-person)
distuning (participle present)
distuned (participle past)
distuned (past)

[…] the clapper of his distuned belle
May cankre soone I mene his false tonge
Be doumbe for euer & neuer efte to be runge

a. 1451, John Lydgate, chapter 20, in The Lyf of Our Lady, Westminster: William Caxton, published 1484:

And as the Musician neyther streyneth the string of his instrument to hye, for feare of breaking, nor lette[t]h it to low for feare of distuning. So god […] will keepe a meane neyther suffering vs to be carelesselye secure, nor driuing vs for want of comforte to despayre.

1587, Robert Southwell, chapter 2, in An Epistle of Comfort to the Reverend Priestes, Paris, pages 23–24:

[…] thy voice distuned and marred of modulation;

1871, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “The Litany of Nations”, in Songs before Sunrise, London: F. S. Ellis, page 73:

A judicious distuning, applied to piano tone, has the effect of introducing a wavering quality which the ear interprets as a pleasing liveliness of tone.

1990, Robin Maconie, chapter 12, in The Concept of Music, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 105:

(transitive) To put (something) out of tune.


mopstick

(music, historical) In an old pianoforte movement, a rod that raises the damper as the key is depressed.


moonling

From moon + -ling. Compare moon-related origins of lunacy and lunatic.

A shy moonling hangs on the suit of an astronaut and is taken back to earth.

1981, Ruth Beall Heinig, Lyda Stillwell, Creative Drama for the Classroom Teacher, page 248:

For a given walking speed, will an earthling astronaut or a moonling do less, equal, or more work when taking a stroll on the Moon, and by what factor?

2010, Michael M. Domach, Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, page 204:

This, together with the 'balloon manufactured entirely of dirty newspaper' in which the dwarf/moonling descends at the tale's opening, points to some self-referential satire on behalf of Poe, a newspaperman himself.

2016, Adam Roberts, The History of Science Fiction, page 142:

(science fiction) Someone from the Moon.


antimony yellow

en-noun

antimony yellow (countable and uncountable, plural antimony yellows)


Naples yellow

Naples yellow (countable and uncountable, plural Naples yellows)

Naples yellow:


atabal

Borrowed from Spanish atabal, from Arabic الطَّبْل (aṭ-ṭabl, “drum”), طَبَلَ (ṭabala, “to drum”). Compare tabor, tymbal, tabla.

The night was wild, the atabal / Scarce echoed on the rampart wall.

the trump, the gong, and the atabal. (III, xx)

1820, Charles Materin, Melmoth the Wanderer:

A kettledrum; a kind of tabor used by the Moors.


tenné

tenné:

(heraldry) A rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown.


tenné

Arms : Quarterly of eight , I or a lion rampant tenné, on a chief sable three escallops or, 2 azure a tower domed argent, 3 barry or and gules,[…]

1985, Stained Glass Before 1700 in American Collections: Corpus Vitrearum Checklist:


rototom

The guy said, 'The rototom's talking! Hear the rototom?' Swear to god, he said the rototom was telling the story. 'Can't put no verse there, the rototom telling the story'.

2005, Jeff Chang, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, St. Martin's Publishing, page 409:

[A] rototom, has the majority of its energy in the lower frequencies.

1987, John Strawn, The Proceedings of the AES 5th International Conference: Music and Digital Technology, Audio Engineering Society, pages 23-24

A drum that has no shell and is able to change pitch by rotating its drumhead around a threaded metal ring.


collectional

The "collectional information" one receives is ambiguous since the collection { C, E, F, G, A } occurs in the key of C and in the key of F

2005, Neil Minturn, The Last Waltz of The Band, page 112:

The collectional reference typically consists of either the octatonic or diatonic collections, although a significant amount of the work can also be analyzed using the modes of non-diatonic minor scales.

2006, Daniel Chemistruck, Imposing Harmonic Restrictions on Symmetrical Scales, page 9:

Not finding any overarching tonal organization to hold things together, whether in the form of a traditional key scheme or something more loosely (if still functionally) construed as tonal, music analysts may find their best alternative in a "collectional" approach, using pitch or pitch-class sets.

2012, Marguerite Boland, John Link, Elliott Carter Studies, page 22:

Between sketches B and C, the contents of the highest and lowest lines have been exchanged, associating the different interval patterns of the outer voices with each other's collectional contents.

2014, Andrew Mead, An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt, page 15:

(music) Pertaining to a collection (set of pitch classes).


apricate

en-verb

apricate (third-person singular simple present apricates, present participle apricating, simple past and past participle apricated)

apricates (present singular third-person)
apricating (participle present)
apricated (participle past)
apricated (past)

From Latin apricus (“sunny, having lots of sunshine; warmed by the sun”) + -ate. Apricus is derived from aperiō (“to open; to uncover”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo (“off, from”) + *h₂wer- (“to cover, shut”)) + -cus (suffix forming relational adjectives from nouns). Not cognate with apricot, although the latter term was also influenced by apricus.

der

to disinfect and freshen by exposing to the sun

No longer were social parties the old heraldic solemnities enjoyed by red letters in the almanac, in which the chief objects were to discharge some arrear of ceremonious debt, or to ventilate old velvets, or to apricate and refresh old gouty systems and old traditions of feudal ostentation, which both alike suffered and grew smoke-dried under too rigorous a seclusion.

1851 May, Thomas De Quincey, “Lord Carlisle on Pope. From Tait’s Magazine.”, in W. H. Bidwell, editor, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume XXIII, number I, New York, N.Y.: Published at 120 Nassau Street, →OCLC, page 74, column 2:

(transitive, also figuratively, rare) To disinfect and freshen by exposing to the sun; to sun.


Tesla coil

From the inventor Nikola Tesla, around 1891.

A type of resonant transformer circuit used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high-frequency alternating-current electricity.


dominant seventh chord

en-noun

dominant seventh chord (plural dominant seventh chords)

(music) a chord with the bass note and the major third, perfect fifth, and the minor seventh above it


minor seventh chord

minor seventh chord (plural minor seventh chords)

(music) a chord with the bass note, the minor third, perfect fifth, and the minor seventh above it


major seventh chord

major seventh chord (plural major seventh chords)

(music) a chord with the bass note and its major third, perfect fifth, and major seventh above it


diminished seventh chord

diminished seventh chord (plural diminished seventh chords)

C diminished seventh chord:
{1}

(music) a chord with the bass note, minor third, diminished fifth, and diminished seventh above it


half-diminished seventh chord

half-diminished seventh chord (plural half-diminished seventh chords)

C half-diminished seventh chord:
1

(music) a chord with the bass note and the minor third, diminished fifth, and minor seventh above it, often denoted with 𝆩.


ninth chord

(music) A chord with five notes that are thirds apart.


tritiated water

Super-heavy water
super-heavy water#English

(inorganic chemistry) Water in which one or both protium (normal hydrogen) atoms have been replaced by atoms of tritium hydrogen:


backfall

(music) A lever in the coupler of an organ.


imblaze

en-verb

imblaze (third-person singular simple present imblazes, present participle imblazing, simple past and past participle imblazed)

imblazes (present singular third-person)
imblazing (participle present)
imblazed (participle past)
imblazed (past)


selenocentric

a selenocentric coordinate system

a selenocentric orbit

(astronomy) Having the moon at the center.


lignitic

en-adj

lignitic (comparative more lignitic, superlative most lignitic)

more lignitic (comparative)
most lignitic (superlative)

lignitic clay

lignitic coal

lignitic sediment


bituminiferous

bituminiferous (comparative more bituminiferous, superlative most bituminiferous)

more bituminiferous (comparative)
most bituminiferous (superlative)

From Latin bitumen (stem bitumin-) + -iferous.

af

Bituminiferous and cupriferous {{long sand}}

1799, Richard Kirwan, Geological Essays:


prasinous

en-adj

prasinous (comparative more prasinous, superlative most prasinous)

more prasinous (comparative)
most prasinous (superlative)

From Latin prasinus, from Ancient Greek πρᾰ́σῐνος (prásinos, “leek-green, light green”).

der

prasinous:


programmist

the leit-motif, that much-vaunted invention of programmists

1916, Daniel Gregory Mason, The Art of Music: The Opera:

Yet all the while I find myself seriously distrusting the psychological validity of the current classification of composers into absolutists and programmists or impressionists.

1999, Edward Sapir, Regna Darnell, Culture, page 901:


charcloth

/ˈt͡ʃɑɹklɔθ/

A swatch of fabric made from vegetable fibre (such as linen or cotton) that has been converted via pyrolysis into a slow-burning fuel of very low ignition temperature, historically used as tinder.


nightertale

Inherited from Middle English nyghtertale, alteration of Old Norse náttarþel.

inh+

A person (as their books make her) raised up by power divine, only for succour to the French estate, then deeply in distress, in whom, for planting a credit the rather, first the company that towards the Dauphin did conduct her, through all dangerous, as held by the English, where she never was afore, all the way and by nightertale safely did she lead; […]

1867, Charles Knight, editor, The Pictoral Works of Shakspere: Histories — Volume II, George Routledge & Sons, pages 21–22:

All through the nightertale I longed for thee, […]

1926, Arthur Mache, Notes and Queries, Spurr & Swift, page 14:

And since Thomas of Gloucester was Arundel's friend, and only God and His Saints knew which way the redeless King would jump, the future was so dangerful that Edmund of York could neither relish his meat nor sleep sound at nightertale.

1975, Georgette Heyer, My Lord John, Arrow Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 44:

'Did I offend thee in my japishness, my son? Or did slumber forsake thee a nightertale last?'

2011, Arthur D Bardswell, The Poor Preachers: The Adventures of the First Lollards, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 288:

(archaic) The period of night; nighttime.


demicadence

Borrowed from French demi-cadence, demi- + cadence.

(music) An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the keynote.


wrawl

en-verb

wrawl (third-person singular simple present wrawls, present participle wrawling, simple past and past participle wrawled)

wrawls (present singular third-person)
wrawling (participle present)
wrawled (participle past)
wrawled (past)

From Middle English wrawlen. Compare Danish vråle.

Some were of dogs, that barked day and night, And some of cats, that wrawling still did cry.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Such successours [of Peter] yben to bolde, In winning all ther witte thei wral.

mid 15th century, Thomas Hoccleve, The Plowman's Tale, part 1:

The fog horns groaned and groaned again, and siren whistled and wrawled.

1908, Will Sparks, Philopolis, volume 3, page 139:

Man alone, poore wretch, she hath laid all naked upon the bare earth, even on his birth-day, to cry and wraule presently from the very first houre that he is borne into this worlde.

1601, Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World, Book VII:

Howbeit, crying and wrawling as like as possibly might be to an infant new come into the world.

1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, Plutarch's Moralia:

(obsolete, intransitive) To cry like a cat; to waul.


purpureal

en-adj

purpureal (comparative more purpureal, superlative most purpureal)

more purpureal (comparative)
most purpureal (superlative)

/pɜːˈpjʊə.ɹɪ.əl/

From Latin purpureus (“purple, violet; brown, reddish; clothed in purple; (figurative) brilliant, shining; beautiful”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Purpureus is either derived:
* from purpura (“the colour purple; purple-fish (Hexaplex trunculus)”) (from Ancient Greek πορφῠ́ρᾱ (porphúrā, “purple-fish; purple dye obtained from it; purple-dyed cloth; purple stripe or other adornment of a garment”), from πορφύρω (porphúrō, “to redden”)) + -eus (suffix forming adjectives from nouns); or
* from Ancient Greek πορφύρεος (porphúreos, “of a purple colour”), from πορφῠ́ρᾱ (porphúrā) (see above) + -εος (-eos).

der

[G]liding thro' his daughter's honour'd ſhades, / The ſmooth Penéus from his glaſſy flood / Reflects purpureal Tempe's pleaſant ſcene?

1744, [Mark Akenside], “Book the First”, in The Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem. In Three Books, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 16, lines 296–298:

[T]he fair star / That gems the glittering coronet of morn, / Sheds not a light so mild, so powerful, / As that which, bursting from the Fairy's form, / Spread a purpureal halo round the scene, / Yet with an undulating motion, / Swayed to her outline gracefully.

1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto I”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], →OCLC, page 6:

Of all that is most beauteous—imaged there / In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, / An ampler ether, a diviner air, / And fields invested with purpureal gleams; [...]

1815, William Wordsworth, “Laodamia”, in Poems […], volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], →OCLC, page 229:

But not ere him who summoneth / I first have seen, enwound / With glooming robes purpureal, cypress-crowned; [...]

1893, Francis Thompson, “The Hound of Heaven”, in The Works of Francis Thompson, volume I (Poems), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons […], published 1913, →OCLC, page 112:

Above the altar-lace / he mounted a triptych of the Assumption / with coarse, purpureal clouds, a prescient Madonna / drawn from Leonardo's "Our Lady of the Rocks."

1973, Derek Walcott, “[Homage to Gregorias] Chapter 10”, in Another Life, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 63:

violâtre

(literary, poetic) of a purple colour — see also purple


orchestra hit

(music) A sampled sound consisting of a number of different orchestral instruments playing a single staccato note or chord at the same time.


harpress

the soft sigh of the evening breeze in the rustling leaves of an aspen which overhung the seat of the fair harpress

1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:


Mars brown

Presumably from the colour of the planet Mars.


actinochemistry

This view, which by a mass of evidence may be shown to be erroneous, is exerting a very prejudicial effect on the progress of actinochemistry.

1872, John William Draper, “Researches in Actino-Chemistry […] ”, in Philosophical Magazine:


concert pitch

en-noun

concert pitch (countable and uncountable, plural concert pitches)

(music) the reference pitch to which a group of musical instruments are tuned for a performance

normaalisävel

music: reference pitch to which a group of musical instruments are tuned for a performance

(music) the reference pitch using the standard of A440

normaalisävel

music: reference pitch using the standard of A440

(music) the pitch that is heard (usually as played by one or more transposing instruments or a combination of transposing and non-transposing instruments)


pine green

pine green (countable and uncountable, plural pine greens)

pine green:

A dark blue-green color, like that of a pine tree.


laurel green

laurel green:

A green-gray color, like that of a leaf of a laurel


laurel green

Of a green-gray color, like that of a leaf of a laurel.


fidicinal

From Latin fidicen, fidicinis (“lute player”) + -al.

der

(music, archaic) stringed (of or pertaining to a stringed instrument).


podder

en-noun

podder (countable and uncountable, plural podders)

If Ah'd only got some podder, Ah can mek Fourt' of July raght here.

1894 July 5, “Fourth of July at Highfield Poorhouse”, in Youth's Companion, volume 67, page 307:

Thursday the Therd Day: I Kept Laising aBought all Day for I was very Laisay only I made a Stople to a podder Horn : and So on:

1966, Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum - Volume 12, page 281:

And when I remarked I couldn't provide 'em with no meat since I was out of podder for my rifle, Micajah--or Big Harpe as some calls him-- he smiled, sorta chuckled, and lent over the table, and said, 'No man oughta be without podder,' — or something like that and then poured out of his own horn.

2005, Kenneth Tucker, A Wilderness of Tigers, page 5:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


serinette

(music) A small barrel organ once used to teach tunes to canaries


tambourin

Obsolete form of tambourine (percussion instrument)


downslur

(music) A slur in which the pitch of the note descends.


upslur

(music) A slur in which the pitch of the note rises.


lignitiferous

en-adj

lignitiferous (comparative more lignitiferous, superlative most lignitiferous)

more lignitiferous (comparative)
most lignitiferous (superlative)

Producing or containing lignite; lignitic


sticcado

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sticcado.wav

Compare Italian steccato (“a palisade”).

(music) A musical instrument resembling a xylophone.


ignigenous

From Latin ignigenus, from ignis (“fire”) + genere, ginere (“to beget, produce”).

Lava is ignigenous.


ruttle

en-verb

ruttle (third-person singular simple present ruttles, present participle ruttling, simple past and past participle ruttled)

ruttles (present singular third-person)
ruttling (participle present)
ruttled (participle past)
ruttled (past)

From Middle English rotelen, ratelen (“to make a rattling sound while breathing, flap”), from Middle Dutch rotelen (“to rattle, wheeze, drone”) or Middle Low German rōtelen, rātelen, rūtelen (“to groan, gasp, rattle”), from Old Saxon hrot, hrod (“snot, mucus”), from Proto-West Germanic *hroþ (“saliva, mucus, snot”). Cognate with Dutch reutelen (“to rattle”), German Rotz (“snot”).

der

Ruttling, heard readily without a stethoscope, is due to air bubbling through fluid in the trachea or bronchi.

1973, Ronald Illingworth, Common Symptoms of Disease in Children, page 144:

His breath ruttled as he blew outward and sent the plants to trembling.

2020, Marly Youmans, Charis in the World of Wonders: A Novel Set in Puritan New England, page 216:

(intransitive, chiefly Northern England) To gurgle; to rattle when breathing.


sextolet

(music) A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.


first inversion

en-noun

first inversion (plural first inversions)

(music) a position of a chord when the third of the chord is the lowest note


second inversion

second inversion (plural second inversions)

(music) The position of a chord when the fifth of the chord is the lowest note.


root position

(music) a position of a chord when the root is the lowest note


third inversion

third inversion (plural third inversions)

(music) a position of a seventh chord when the seventh of the chord is the lowest note


bass trombone

A trombone with the same fundamental pitch as the tenor, typically has two valves, a wider bore, and larger bell. These help to produce a fuller, weightier, sound, and help play better in the lower register.


ochroleucous

en-adj

ochroleucous (comparative more ochroleucous, superlative most ochroleucous)

more ochroleucous (comparative)
most ochroleucous (superlative)

ochroleucous:

Yellowish-white; having a faint tint of dingy yellow


miaul

en-verb

miaul (third-person singular simple present miauls, present participle miauling, simple past and past participle miauled)

miauls (present singular third-person)
miauling (participle present)
miauled (participle past)
miauled (past)

Compare French miauler, of imitative origin.

"or Lady Penelope is miauling like a starved cat !"

1822, [Walter Scott], The Pirate. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

(intransitive, dated) To give the cry of a cat.


aprication

/æpɹɪˈkeɪʃən/

Aprication, a beaking in the sunne."

1626, H. C. Gent, The English Dictionarie, London: Isaac Iaggard:

Very few persons seem to have a due sense of the luxury and benefit of aprication, or immersion in the sunshine bath, which every fair day will furnish gratuitously to all applicants.

1883, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Pages from an old volume of life, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company:

We would tease him about the countless hours he would spend soaking in suntan lotion as he lay on the same exact spot along the pool. "How long were you in heaven this morning?" my mother would ask. "Two straight hours. But I plan to return early this afternoon for a much longer aprication."

2007, André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Picador, 2008, →ISBN, page 26:

(rare) The act of apricating, or basking in the sun.


firestriker

A piece of high-carbon steel used for striking a spark, usually kept in a tinderbox with flint and tinder.

uror

piece of steel used for striking a spark


isographic

isographic K-nets


brabble

brabble (third-person singular simple present brabbles, present participle brabbling, simple past and past participle brabbled)

brabbles (present singular third-person)
brabbling (participle present)
brabbled (participle past)
brabbled (past)

From Middle Dutch brabbelen (“to quarrel, jabber”). Akin to babble. Compare modern Dutch brabbelen, German brabbeln (“to talk confusedly”).

bor

Farther on, when they came to a miniature glen between the semblance of two hills, down which, in mockery of a torrent, brabbled a slim brown stream, MacLean stood still […]

1902, Mary Johnston, chapter 9, in Audrey, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, page 121:

Down in the middle, among mossy boulders, the beck brabbled through golden sheets of Draba […]

1921, Reginald Farrer, chapter 10, in The Rainbow Bridge, London: E. Arnold & Co, page 181:

To babble (of a stream or other watercourse).


wrest block

(music) A wooden block in the pianoforte, often made of several pieces, into which the wrest-pins are driven.

pionnachlár

music: a wooden block in the pianoforte into which the wrest-pins are driven


crowder

From Middle English crowdere; equivalent to crowd + -er.

Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder […]

a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Henry Olney, […], published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: [Alexander Murray & Son], 1 April 1868, →OCLC:

One who plays on a crwth, a string instrument of Welsh origin; a fiddler.


porraceous

en-adj

porraceous (comparative more porraceous, superlative most porraceous)

more porraceous (comparative)
most porraceous (superlative)

/pɔːˈɹeɪʃəs/

From Latin porrāceus, from porrum, porrus (“a leek”).

If the lesser Intestines be wounded, he will be troubled with poraceous Vomiting, and what he eats or drinks will pass out of his Wound in less than half an hour[.]

1676, Richard Wiseman, Several Chirurgical Treatises, page 432:

During the night she vomited porraceous matter.

1914, Georges Dieulafoy, A Text-Book of Medicine, page 880:

[B]ut [I] had to say that the "foliage" was "emerald" or indeed (I discovered this in a Victorian book of verse by a gentleman called Bradford) that the "verdure" was "porraceous".

1956, Paul Dehn, For Love and Money, page 79:

My pignoration, see, is this smaragd, of porraceous hue. Bless my tripudiation, stellify my verses.

1986, Les Murray, editor, The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse, page 214:

porraceous:

(originally medicine now rare) Resembling the leek in colour; greenish.


flammation

Arsenic […]being artificial and sublimed with salt, will not endure flammation

1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

(obsolete) The act of setting on fire; inflammation


superdominant

(music) The sixth tone of the scale, immediately above the dominant.


passing tone

(music) a non-harmonic tone that is a second lower than a note in one chord and a second higher than a note in the other chord


escape tone

(music) a non-harmonic tone that is a second from a note in the previous chord and more than a second from a note in the next chord


non-harmonic tone

en-noun

non-harmonic tone (plural non-harmonic tones)

(music) a note that is played or sung between two chords that is not a part of either chord


neighbor tone

(music) a non-harmonic tone that is a second either higher or lower than two notes that are unison in two chords


E-flat

The clarinet played a long E-flat.

(music) A tone one semitone lower than E, between D and E.

I had to take it to the shop because the E-flat was stuck.

(music) A key or other mechanism for producing an E-flat.

We will now hear the third sonata, in E-flat.


scug

Scottish and Northern English from Old Norse skuggi, from Proto-Germanic *skuwwô (“shadow, reflection”). Cognate with Icelandic skuggi, Swedish skugga, Danish skygge, Old English sċūa, sċūwa (“a shade”).

der

(Northern England, Scotland) Shade, shadow.

We was jickering along […] under the scug o' the hill.

(Northern England, Scotland) A shelter, a sheltered place (especially on the side of a hill).


scug

en-verb

scug (third-person singular simple present scugs, present participle scugging, simple past and past participle scugged)

scugs (present singular third-person)
scugging (participle present)
scugged (participle past)
scugged (past)

(Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To shelter; to protect.

(Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To hide; to take shelter.


tendency tone

(music) a pitch that tends to move toward another pitch, usually the submediant or the leading tone


archil

en-noun

archil (countable and uncountable, plural archils)


BRMC

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
w:Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Initialism of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.


thumb position

(music) The position when the thumb is contacting the string or strings of a stringed instrument.


eupyrion

From eu- + Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + -ion.

A flint and steel, with matches, or, what is far better, an eupyrion, should always be conveniently placed in the laboratory, and near to it a candle and candlestick

1830, Michael Faraday, Chemical Manipulation:

(archaic, historical) A device historically used for obtaining instantaneous light, such as a lucifer match.


thoria

thoria (countable and uncountable, plural thorias)

(mineralogy) The rare earth thorium oxide.


OSETI

(astrobiology) Acronym of optical search for extraterrestrial intelligence. It is SETI using visible light instead of traditional radio waves.


baritone horn

(music) A brass instrument in the baritone range that is similar to a euphonium.


bass horn

A large brass instrument in the bass range, usually referring to the modern tuba or the archaic serpent


whole-tone scale

whole-tone scale (plural whole-tone scales)

A whole-tone scale starting on C:
{c'd'e'fis'gis'ais'c2}

(music) a scale with intervals of only whole steps


timist

(obsolete, music) A performer who keeps good time.


lucule

Diminutive from Latin lux, lucis (“light”).

(astronomy, obsolete) facula (bright spot on the sun)


9-8 suspension

(music) a suspension that consists of the ninth chord tone that resolves to the eighth (or the one).


trackmaster

(music) A person or system responsible for overseeing and managing the various components of a music track during the recording and mixing process.


anthraciferous

en-adj

anthraciferous (comparative more anthraciferous, superlative most anthraciferous)

more anthraciferous (comparative)
most anthraciferous (superlative)

anthraciferous sandstone

anthraciferous strata


ranz des vaches

en-noun

ranz des vaches (plural ranz des vaches)

The herald cries his summons to the lists,
But no sound comes to these sequestered valleys;
I only hear the melancholy note
Of cowbells and the dreary ranz des vaches.

1972, Friedrich Schiller, translated by William F. Mainland, Wilhelm Tell, act II, scene i:

(music) Any of numerous traditional Swiss melodies played on the alpenhorn, originally to call cows in from the mountains.


erythrosin

erythrosin (countable and uncountable, plural erythrosins)

(chemistry) A red substance formed by the oxidation of tyrosin.


7-6 suspension

(music) a suspension that has the suspended note a seventh (plus any number that is a multiple of seven) from the bass move down a step to the note in the chord where the suspension is happening that is a sixth (plus any number that is a multiple of seven) above the bass note


unremixed

(music) Not remixed; not having been remixed.


isabelline

en-adj

isabelline (comparative more isabelline, superlative most isabelline)

more isabelline (comparative)
most isabelline (superlative)

The isabelline (or Daurian) shrike is a greyish-yellow and hunts from prominent perches, impaling the corpses on thorns as a larder.

As Mr. Tristram has remarked, in regard to the inhabitants of the Sahara, all are protected by their “isabelline or sand-colour.”

1871, Charles Darwin, “Birds—concluded”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Part II (Sexual Selection), page 224:

Isabelline -us: pale yellow with some red and brown [chronic lemon with a little carmine and roman sepia].

[1906, John Bernhard Smith, Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology:

(chiefly of animals) Coloured a greyish yellow.


semidemiquaver

(music) A demisemiquaver; a thirty-second note.


figurated

figurated (comparative more figurated, superlative most figurated)

more figurated (comparative)
most figurated (superlative)

(music) Involving a consistent metrical transformation of simple chords.


Florida flambe

Medina was killed, then cooked, becoming the second inmate in seven years to suffer the Florida flambe.

1997 April 5, Leonard Pitts, “Fiery execution shows lie of ‘humane’ death penalty”, in The Free Lance-Star, page A15:

There's a nice new death chamber in Terre Haute, Ind., just waiting for ya. No Florida flambe there. A slight boo-boo occurred not long ago when Florida fired up "Old Sparky" to execute a criminal. The guy's face mask flared up. Most grisly. A Florida district attorney glibly said the moral of the mishap was not to commit crime in Florida if you don't want the same treatment.

1997 June 6, Elizabeth Jarnagin, “Pro-life consistency means opposing death penalty”, in Amarillo Globe-News:

This is why harris should go down in Florida Flambe.

2005 August 19, Cha, “Ms. Harris's "felon purge"”, in democraticunderground.com:

(derogatory) Burning (catching fire) during execution by electric chair.

Capital punishment in Florida
Old Sparky


solferino

en-noun

solferino (countable and uncountable, plural solferinos)

/ˌsoʊlfəˈɹiːnəʊ/

So called from Solferino in Italy, where a battle was fought at about the time of its discovery.

A brilliant purple-red dye derived from aniline


nola

From Latin nola, traditionally derived from Nola in Italy, from its having been the supposed location of St Paulinus's introduction of bells to Christian ceremony, but possibly Onomatopoeic.

A very small bell used in the choir during consecration.


phonometer

A particular instrument for measuring the force of sounds.


strumstrum

Probably from strum; compare also humstrum.

[…] in the Churches belonging to Indian Towns they have all sorts of Vizards, and strange antick Dresses both for Men and Women, and abundance of Musical Hautboys and Strumstrums. The Strumstrum is made somewhat like a Cittern; most of those that the Indians use are made of a large Goad cut in the midst, and a thin Board laid over the hollow, and which is fastned to the Sides: this serves for the Belly; over which the Strings are placed.

1697, William Dampier, chapter 5, in A New Voyage Round the World, London: James Knapton, page 127:

1728, George Carleton (attributed to Daniel Defoe), The Memoirs of an English Officer, London: E. Symon, p. 279,
Their Guitars, if not their Sole, are their darling Instruments, and what they most delight in: Tho’ in my Opinion our English Sailors are not much amiss in giving them the Title of Strum Strums.

[The orator’s] cry […] was a species of musick to the mob, as agreeable as the sound of a bagpipe to a mountaineer of North Britain, or the strum-strum to the swarthy natives of Angola.

1769, Tobias Smollett, “The History and Adventures of an Atom”, in London, volume 1, Robinson and Roberts, page 106:

Banjo Byron that twangs the strum-strum there—

1876, Robert Browning, Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper, London: Smith, Elder, page 43:

They sent ashore for some Sing-Song girls, which, with the fellers that brought them, all night made the cabin thick with cigarettes and the stringing of a strum-strum.

1903, Chester Bailey Fernald, “A Yarn of the Pea-Soup Sea”, in Under the Jack-Staff, New York: Century, pages 247–248:

(archaic, often derogatory) Any stringed musical instrument that is played with the fingertips, especially one considered to be foreign.


radiosodium

radioactive sodium (especially when used as a tracer)


radioaluminium

radioactive aluminium (especially when used as a tracer)


radiocesium

radiocesium (countable and uncountable, plural radiocesiums)


radiocobalt

Radioactive cobalt (especially when used as a tracer).


radioethanol

radioactive ethanol (labelled with radioactive carbon)


radiobenzene

radioactive benzene (labelled with radioactive carbon)


radiobromine

[…]the positron-emitters bromine-75 and -76 received attention as attractive isotopes right from the beginning of PET-imaging. This was due to existing iodine-123 [a radioactive isotope] labelled tracers and ligands for SPECT, offering homologous non-isotopic radiobromine compounds [in place of the radioiodine].

2021 January 20, Heinz H. Coenen, Johannes Ermert, “Expanding PET-applications in life sciences with positron-emitters beyond fluorine-18”, in Nuclear Medicine and Biology, volume 92, →DOI, pages 241–269:


radiophosphorus

radioactive phosphorus (especially when used as a tracer)


cymogene

cymogene (usually uncountable, plural cymogenes)

(organic chemistry, petrochemistry) A highly volatile liquid, condensed by cold and pressure from the first products of the distillation of petroleum; used for producing low temperatures.


workover

Shell launched a massive "work over" campaign during my second year in Brunei. A work over is basically an existing production well that needs a service.

2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 44:

Any kind of oil well intervention involving invasive techniques, such as wireline or snubbing.

капита́льный ремо́нт сква́жин

invasive intervention into oil well structure


chromatics

From chromatic + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum).


toe-tapper

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-toe-tapper.wav

Associated Press
FOX News
Larry Craig
Larry Craig scandal
The New York Times
The New York Times Company

From toe + tapper.
Sense 2 (“joke”) derives from the practice of tapping one’s toes to indicate pleasure; compare toe-tappingly. Sense 3 (“closeted homosexual, especially one who solicits gay sex”) derives from the 2007 Larry Craig scandal in which then-Senator Larry Craig (born 1945) of Idaho, USA, was arrested after tapping his right foot in a men’s restroom, an action seen as covert solicitation of sex.

"I'd Be Lost Without You" seems somewhat out of place from a vocal viewpoint — Lewis's slightly reedy middle soprano is very expressive and absolutely true, but doesn't have enough dark body to fully deal with the torchy melody. It fares better in the ballads and toe-tappers that comprise the rest of the album.

1989 August 12, Caroline Foty, “Hindsights”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 5, page 7:

[Emily] Blunt, for one, knows exactly what she's doing. She glides through her scenes even when she's not literally aloft, offsetting her sterner side with prim but genuine affection in her dialogue, then grinning her way through the energetic toe-tappers.

2018 December 12, Charles Bramesco, “A Spoonful of Nostalgia Helps the Calculated Mary Poppins Returns Go Down”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-05-24:

(music) A piece of music with a prominent beat, to which one feels compelled to tap their toes.


tracklist

(music) A tracklisting; a list of tracks appearing on an album, EP, LP etc.


semidiatessaron

(music) An imperfect or diminished fourth.


chrysaniline

en-noun

chrysaniline (countable and uncountable, plural chrysanilines)

(organic chemistry) A yellow substance obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of rosaniline, used to dye silk a golden-yellow colour.


tridiapason

(music, historical) A triple octave, or twenty-second.


anchusin

Borrowed from New Latin Anchusa (“the plant alkanet”) + -in.

(organic chemistry) A resinoid colouring matter obtained from alkanet root.


progressive metal

The “progressive metal” movement began in the 1990s with the group Dream Theater.

2001, Pat Browne, The guide to United States popular culture, Popular Press, page 373:

In 1988 they reached their true breakthrough both as a progressive metal band and as a commercial force with Operation Mindcrime, a concept album whose progressive elements were supplemented by symphonic arrangements played by a live orchestra.

2003, Daniel Bukszpan, Ronnie James Dio, The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal, Barnes & Noble Publishing, page 106:

Formed in 1987 by guitarist Kevin Heidbreder and bassist John Emery, St. Louis' Anacrusis grew from a talented thrash outfit to one of the most highly respected progressive metal bands in the United States.

2005, Joel McIver, Extreme Metal II, Music Sales Group, page 25:

a subgenre of heavy metal with progressive rock influences


tintamar

nor is there any Motion, or the least tintamar of Trouble in any part of the Country

1655, James Howell, “To my Brother, Dr. Howell”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:

(obsolete) A hideous or confused noise; an uproar; a racket.


villotta

(music) A form of popular song from Friuli


zanza

Idealized membranes, plates and bars are clearly inadequate and give way to the reality of tablas, gongs and zanzas.

2013, Simon Emmerson, Living Electronic Music, page 20:

(music) A kind of thumb piano from Africa.


antecedent phrase

antecedent phrase (plural antecedent phrases)


consequent phrase

consequent phrase (plural consequent phrases)


hemiditone

(music, Ancient Greece) The lesser third.


carnyx

Learned borrowing from Late Latin carnyx, from Byzantine Greek κάρνυξ (kárnux, “carnyx”), from κάρνον (kárnon, “carnyx”) (both translating Galatian words into Greek), from Gaulish carno- (“horn of an animal”) (used in names), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head, top; horn of an animal”).

der

(music, historical) A bronze wind instrument used by Iron Age Celts (c. 200 B.C.E. – 200 C.E.) as a type of battle trumpet; held vertically when played, it was shaped like an elongated S with a mouthpiece at the lower end and a bell (often resembling an animal with an open mouth) at the upper end.

карникс

bronze wind instrument used by Iron Age Celts as a type of battle trumpet


tromboney

en-adj

tromboney (comparative more tromboney, superlative most tromboney)

more tromboney (comparative)
most tromboney (superlative)

His big voice, his good humor, were back. Out rolled one of his long deep tromboney laughs.

2011, Gail Sheehy, Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos Into Confidence, page 59:


circle progression

en-noun

circle progression (plural circle progressions)

The circle progression I–IV–viiᵒ-iii-vi-ii-V-I moves counterclockwise around the circle of fifths:
\relative c' {1 }

(music) a chord progression with ascending fourths and/or descending fifths.


chord progression

chord progression (plural chord progressions)

You don’t have to start with a melody; you can base your tune on a specific chord progression and compose a melody that best fits the chords.

2005, Michael Miller, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Music Theory, 2nd edition, Alpha, →ISBN, page 142:

(music) A pattern of two or more chords, often chords diatonic to a particular key.


ripienist

(music) A musician in the ripieno portion of an orchestra, especially as opposed to a soloist or concertino section.


glitchcore

Herbert is a former piano prodigy and Exeter drama student who went from touring with UK big bands to freaking clubbers with samplers and kitchen utensils, and his cozy records merge glitchcore buzz and tech-house heat […]

2001 March, SPIN, volume 17, number 3, page 150:

Rather than UR-styled militant Techno, the first two singles, sleeved in exploding vector designs, showcase the glitchcore sounds of code warriors like Richard Devine, Kero and Mode Selektor.


double-dotted

(music, of a note or rest) Followed by two dots, increasing its note value by three-quarters of the base note.


craunch

He sat down to write, and occupied himself with certain papers, until there was a far-off sound of wheels: some vehicle was slowly entering the great gates; a craunch upon the gravel sweep.

(archaic) A grinding or crunching sound.


olivaster

en-adj

olivaster (comparative more olivaster, superlative most olivaster)

more olivaster (comparative)
most olivaster (superlative)

From French olivastre (attested by 1575; compare modern French olivâtre). For more, see olive, -aster.

Of colour, they are rather black than olivaster and that their arms and legs are chained with manilios and armlets of silver, brass, ivory and the like

1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:

(archaic, uncommon) Of the color of the olive; tawny.


lumination

en-noun

lumination (countable and uncountable, plural luminations)

From luminate + -ion, or a Latin *lūminātiōnem (“illumination”), from lūminō (“to brighten, to illuminate; to reveal (throw light on)”), from lūmen (“light”) (probably from lūx (“light”) + -men (suffix forming neuter nouns of the third declension)), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-s-men (“light”) (from Proto-Italic *louks, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; light; white”) + *-mn̥ (suffix indicating a noun))) + Latin -tiōnem (“-tion”, suffix forming a noun relating to some action or the result of an action) (from Proto-Italic *-tiō, from Proto-Indo-European *-tis (suffix forming nouns from verbs)).

der

Nor are we to think it strange, if after so great a quantity of luminous vapour had been carried up into the ether, out of the pores of the earth, the cause of its effervescence at length abating, or perhaps the matter consumed, these effluvia should at length subside, and form those two bright luminations which we have described; and, whose edges being turned to us, were capable to emit so much light that we might read by them. I choose to call them luminations, because, though they were but thin, doubtless they spread horizontally over a large tract of the earth's surface.

1815, Edward Polehampton, “Aurora Borealis and Australis”, in The Gallery of Nature and Art; or, A Tour through Creation and Science. … Illustrated with One Hundred Plates, from New Designs, Descriptive of the Wonders of Nature and Art. … In Six Volumes, volume IV, London: Printed by R. Wilks, 89, Chancery-Lane; sold by Cradock and Joy, Paternoster-Row; Rodwell, New Bond-Street; Underwood, Fleet-Street; and all other booksellers, →OCLC, section II (Account of Surprising Lights in the Air, March 6, 1716; with an Attempt to Explain Their Principal Phœnomena. By Edmund [i.e., Edmond] Halley, J.V.D. Savilian Professor of Geometry, Oxon, and Secretary to the Royal Society.), page 412:

The most delicate test for phosphorus is the distillation of the suspected substance, especially flour paste, with a little sulphuric acid and water. […] Where the aqueous vapors from the flask reach the cooling tube, a lumination is constantly observed in the dark, usually a luminous ring. […] If ether, alcohol or turpentine are present, they will prevent the lumination, which commences as soon as they have passed over.

1856 July, E[ilhard] Mitscherlich, “[Contributions to Toxicology. [Translated from Archiv. d. Pharm. and Buchners N. Repertorium.] by John M. Maisch.] Method to Discover Phosphorus”, in William Procter Jr., editor, The American Journal of Pharmacy, volume XXVIII (Third Series, volume IV), Philadelphia, Pa.: Merrihew & Thompson, printers, Lodge Street, north side Pennsylvania Bank, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 323–324:

Who knows how many forgotten souls had rotted away and eventually died within the walls of this dungeon? Would he be one of them? The only light was the scant lumination that flickered upon the floor cast by a torch far down the hall.

2001, Robert R. Hotchkiss, “In the Palace Dungeon”, in Earth of Fire, Sky of Ice: An Epic Fantasy Adventure (The Shaldrodan Saga; book 1), Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 159:

We are confronted with saving our entire Pleistocene legacy, with redeeming creation, beyond big bangs and white dwarfs and any and all apocalypses. We are being offered the only way to understand what a universe is. The real universe, the one that beats in our hearts, that casts its luminations across our dreams …

2008, Richard Grossinger, “Third Cycle”, in The Bardo of Waking Life, Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 264:

It is not atypical for a newly installed LED [light-emitting diode] board to be capable of luminating for 100,000 hours, continuously, in a 24/7 production facility. In the future, these lumination times are expected to increase incrementally.

2008, Jimmy Schaeffler, “What’s Driving Digital Signage?”, in Digital Signage: Software, Networks, Advertising, and Displays: A Primer for Understanding the Business (NAB Executive Technology Briefings), Burlington, Mass., Oxford: Focal Press, →ISBN, page 80:

(rare) Illumination; specifically, artificial illumination.


harmonist

From harmony + -ist. Compare French harmoniste.

(music) One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a composer.


radiocomplex

(chemistry) A complex containing a radiotracer


meantone

en-noun

meantone (countable and uncountable, plural meantones)

(music) A musical temperament that generates all non-octave intervals from a stack of identical perfect fifths all tuned flat from their just ratio of 3/2. When the amount of flattening makes the major and minor thirds appropriate sizes, the syntonic comma is tempered out to a unison.


multialarm

(US, firefighting, of a fire) Requiring the work of several firetrucks to contain or extinguish.


tonal center

(music) The final, resolving note of a scale.


whole tone

(music) The musical interval equal (exactly or approximately) to a frequency ratio of 8/7, 9/8, or 10/9, depending on the tuning system used. In meantone tunings (including twelve-tone equal temperament), there is only one whole tone, though tuning systems that are not meantone have a "major tone" of 9/8 and a "minor tone" of 10/9.


sev

One-two-three-four-five-six-sev-one.

(music) the seventh beat or pulse of a measure, spoken.


barwood

barwood (countable and uncountable, plural barwoods)

From bar + wood, since it was imported from Africa in bars.

(uncountable) Red wood of a leguminous African tree, Baphia nitida, used as a dyewood and for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.


monophony

(music) The characteristic of a piece that has only a primary melody and no secondary melody or accompaniment.


Hansonmania

(informal) Enthusiasm for Hanson, a boy band popular in the 1990s.


contrapuntist

Now Counterpoint is certainly so much an Art , that to be , what they call , a learned Contrapuntist , is with Harmonists a title of no small excellence

a. 1797, William Mason, Essays on Church Music:


sawtry

The chaplets white and red their ladies bore.
Their instruments were various in their kind,
Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind:
The sawtry, pipe, and hautboy's noisy band.

1700, [John] Dryden, Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:


euphonon

(music) A musical instrument resembling the organ in tone and the upright piano in form.


heptachord

From Ancient Greek ἑπτάχορδος (heptákhordos, “seven-stringed”), from ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”) + χορδή (khordḗ, “chord”). Compare French heptacorde.


radioiodide

en-noun

radioiodide (countable and uncountable, plural radioiodides)


latration

From Latin lātrātio, from lātrāre (“to bark”) + -tiō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”). Equivalent to latrate + -ion.

If a dog bite a pig, the narrative teems with ‘virus’, the ‘rabid animal’, and the ‘latration’ of the patient

1828, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, number 23, page 194:

But for this barrier, the theological Cerberus would find himself turning so few passengers from its gate, that he would soon, himself, weary of his wearisome latrations.

What then must have been the effect upon the eminent philologist of the midnight latrations of Fernando Wood's yellow dog?

1925, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Notes and anecdotes of many years, page 75:

And rather a latration of yaps and yowls as a harum-scarum of dogs swept past.

(now rare) Barking, an instance of barking.


isography

strong isographies of trichords

(music) The relationship between two pitch class sets that can be arranged into K-nets that are isographic (in the mathematical sense).


ecbole

ecbole (countable and uncountable, plural ecboles)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκβολή (ekbolḗ, “a digression”), from ἐκβάλλω (ekbállō, “to throw out”).

bor

Ecbole: a […] change in the enharmonic genus, by the accidental elevation of a chord, or string, five dieses above its ordinary pitch.

1813, J.M. Good & al., Pantologia, s.v. "Ecbole"

(music) The raising or sharping of a tone, especially (historical) in relation to Ancient Greek music.


tonicization

en-noun

tonicization (countable and uncountable, plural tonicizations)

(music) The temporary change of an originally non-tonic tone to tonic.


tonicize

en-verb

tonicize (third-person singular simple present tonicizes, present participle tonicizing, simple past and past participle tonicized)

tonicizes (present singular third-person)
tonicizing (participle present)
tonicized (participle past)
tonicized (past)

(music) To make (a tone) temporarily become tonic.


E-la

(obsolete, music) The highest note in the scale proposed by Guido of Arezzo.


consecution

en-noun

consecution (countable and uncountable, plural consecutions)

From Middle English consecucioun (“attainment”), from Latin cōnsecūtiō (“effect, proper sequence, attainment”), from past participle of cōnsequor (“to follow, result, reach”).

der

(music) A succession of similar intervals in harmony.


cuarteto

Borrowed from Spanish cuarteto (“quartet”), because the early dance-hall numbers were invariably four-piece bands (violin, piano, accordion, bass). Doublet of quartet.

(music) An upbeat genre of music from Argentina, descended from Italian and Spanish dance ensembles.


coal-whipper

[W]e were in among the tiers of shipping […] [H]ere, were colliers by the score and score, with the coal-whippers plunging off stages on deck, as counterweights to measures of coal swinging up, which were then rattled over the side into barges […]

1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:

(UK, dated) One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship.


liedertafel

Borrowed from German Liedertafel (literally “song table”).


cosmoline

Probably from cosmetic + Latin oleum (“oil”).

(organic chemistry, petrochemistry) A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffins.


simple meter

en-noun

simple meter (countable and uncountable, plural simple meters)

(music) meter with two subdivisions for every pulse


asymmetric meter

asymmetric meter (plural asymmetric meters)

(music) meter with an irregular pulse (usually with the top number of the time signature being 5, 7, 11, etc.).


compound meter

(music) A meter with three subdivisions for every pulse.


Drummond light

Named after British naval officer and civil engineer Thomas Drummond (1797–1840).


croceous

en-adj

croceous (comparative more croceous, superlative most croceous)

more croceous (comparative)
most croceous (superlative)

From Latin croceus, from crocus (“saffron”). See crocus.

Of a deep reddish yellow, like that of saffron.


polyphonist

(music) A master of polyphony; a contrapuntist.


septimole

(music) A group of seven notes to be played in the time of four or six.


yellowred

yellowred (comparative more yellowred, superlative most yellowred)

more yellowred (comparative)
most yellowred (superlative)

Coxa grey, grey haired, femur blackbrown, yellowwhite haired along the distal lateral border, tibia redbrown to blackbrown, yellowred haired at base, then black haired.

Head: Triangular; clypeus enclosed; cheeks surrounding clypeus are nearly straight extending in front of compound eyes; antennae pinkish or of yellowred tile with last article darker; second article longer than third one [...]

1971, Benakeio Phytopathologiko Institouto, Chronika tou Benakeiou Phytopathologikou Institoutou:

“I’ll do it,” said Dolly, and getting up, she carefully passed the spoon over the frothing sugar, and from time to time shook off the clinging jam from the spoon by knocking it on a plate that was covered with yellowred scum and blood-colored syrup.

2003, Leo Tolstoy, Amy Mandelker, Constance Garnett, Anna Karenina:

(uncommon) Alternative form of yellow-red


pegbox

(music, lutherie) The part of a violin or similar stringed instrument that holds the tuning pegs.


alhenna

Borrowed from Arabic الحِنَّاء (al-ḥinnāʔ), preserving the Arabic article اَل (al-).

Lawsonia inermis
Lawsonia inermis#Translingual


hypermeasure

(music) A unit in which each regular measure is one beat (actually hyperbeat) of a larger meter.


hyperbeat

(music) One unit of hypermeter, generally a measure.


triole

A very able pianist might shift the phase of the trioles in such a way that their first stroke falls between two 3x8 = 4x6 strokes of a quartole.


oblatration

From Latin oblātrātio, from oblātrāre (“to bark at, to rail against”) + -tiō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”), from ob- (“ob-: against, at”) + lātrāre (“to bark, to rant”). Equivalent to ob- + latration.

February 18 1629, Bishop Joseph Hall, Salvation from an Untoward Generation
The Apostle fears none of these currish oblatrations...

He that feareth oblatration must not travel.

1661, John Stephens, An Historical Discourse..., Prol.

1867, William Gifford (of Leith), Memorials of the life and work of the Rev. William Johnston
You were never a very hot Voluntary, even when some, who are now among the dumb dogs that cannot or will not bark, were keeping up a most violent oblatration...

(obsolete) The act of barking at someone or something; (figuratively) the act of ranting at someone or something; an instance of these.


ribible

(469) […] these gleemen […] not only played on harp and sytol, rote, sawtry, and ribible, but sang hymns to heaven in praise of the saint whose remains lay enshrined before them.

1853, Canon Daniel Rock, chapter 10, in The Church of Our Fathers, volume 3:


claribella

From Latin clarus (“clear”) + bellus (“fine”).

(music) An organ stop with a soft, fluty sound.


dishwater blond

dishwater blond (comparative more dishwater blond, superlative most dishwater blond)

more dishwater blond (comparative)
most dishwater blond (superlative)

She had a pert, dishwater blond hairdo, kind of like a Doris Day cut.

2006, Pierce Scranton, Death on the Learning Curve, Elite Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 129:

Of a dark blond color bordering on light brown.


dishwater blond

en-noun

dishwater blond (plural dishwater blonds)

dishwater blond:

"Dishwater blond is just as attractive as it sounds. Get highlights."

2006, Christina Dodd, Trouble in High Heels, Signet, published 2006, →ISBN, page 21:

A dark shade of blond, bordering on light brown.

Russ tipped the magazine slightly to reduce the glare from the lamp. The dishwater blond in the picture smiled at him, Russ thought, in just the right way.

2003, David M. Pierce, Elf Child, The Hatworth Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 1:


semichorus

(music) A half chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, rather than the full choir.


F instrument

(music) an instrument that produces a concert pitch of F when a C is written in the music


C instrument

(music) an instrument that either does not transpose, or transposes by an octave or multiple octaves.


B♭ instrument

(music) an instrument that produces a concert pitch of B♭ when a C is written in the music


E♭ instrument

(music) an instrument that produces the concert pitch of E♭ when a C is written in the music


equisonance

equisonance (usually uncountable, plural equisonances)

From equi- + Latin sonans, present participle of sonare (“to sound”). Compare French équisonnance. See sonant.

(music) An equal and undistinguishable unison of voices; a perfect consonance.


sightsman

[…] indeed the lessons are evidently the production of a man who either never knew, or has forgotten, the elementary steps and helps necessary to make the future sightsman.

1842, The Musical World, volume 17, page 268:


chiroplast

From Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + πλάσσω (plássō, “to shape”).

(music, historical) A sliding wooden frame clamped above the keys of the piano, into which the hands and fingers of a pianist are placed. It was used for learners of the piano in the early 19th century.


rigoll

An old musical instrument consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads, and played with a stick with a ball at its end.


gemshorn

From German Gemshorn, literally "chamois horn".

An instrument of the ocarina family, historically made from the horn of a chamois, goat, or other animal.


double stop

(music, stringed instruments) An instance of two notes being played simultaneously.


glee club

From glee, meaning a short song for multiple parts.

(chiefly US) A secular choir or choral group.


disquaire

Borrowed, with a change in meaning, from French disquaire (“record dealer; record shop”).

bor

Some discothèques allow their patrons to suggest tunes to the disquaire, but at many such an impertinence would be unthinkable—like asking Pablo Casals to play Melancholy Baby.

1963 July 5, “The Compleat Virtuosi”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2008-12-22:

In fact, [Harry] Meyerson had Slim Hyatt, the "disquaire" (disk jockey) at Shepheards, assist him in programming the album.

1964 May 30, Mike Gross, “Deccareques Put Out for Discothequeniks”, in Billboard: The International Music-record Newsweekly, Cincinnati, Oh.: The Billboard Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 1, column 3:

In France, clubs found they didn't need live musicians to get people to dance – just a disquaire who "programmed" dance records and moods for the evening. Such a place had a name too, a discotheque.

2010, Robert Milliken, “Lillian Roxon: Selected Writings”, in Mother of Rock: The Lillian Roxon Story, 2nd edition, U.S.A.: ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, pages 408–409:

He'd given the albums to the disquaire affiliated with Chez Castel, the popular Parisian discotheque.

2012, William J. Mann, “Spring 1964”, in Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand, New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, section 7, page 487:

(dance, music, dated) A disc jockey, especially one in a French-speaking country.


ooh-ah-ah

/ˈʔuːˌʔɑːˌʔɑː/

onomatopoeic

Imitative

(onomatopoeia) Synonym of oo oo aa aa (“used to represent the sound of a monkey's cry”)


bakaw

Saying this in the nicest way possible.... BAKAW BUK BUK BACAW

2000 January 10, NetGuy [username], “Re: Hello Guys!!”, in alt.romance.teen (Usenet):

She's just a big chicken.
 Bawk, bawk, bakaw!

2002 April 27, Jim Larson, “Re: (spoilers ahoy!) okay well I've given up”, in alt.tv.farscape (Usenet):

The one-eyed butcher's stall, with its buckets of guts and crates of eggs, stood before me. I could see the one-eyed butcher perched behind a massive chopping block, swiftly hacking away.
BAWK! BAWK! BA-KAW!

2012, Wai Chin, Chook Chook: Mei's Secret Pets, University of Queensland Press, →ISBN:


disdiapason

(music, Ancient Greece) An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth.


phorminx

en-noun

phorminx (plural phorminxes or phorminges)

We beat the phorminx till we hurt our thumbs,
As if still ignorant of counterpoint.

1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “First Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:

A kind of lyre used by the Ancient Greeks.


bluenette

A girl with pale blue hair and a translucent dress wears see-through underwear (she's not a natural bluenette).

2000 November, B. Werde, “The Love”, in CMJ New Music Monthly:

(slang) A person with blue hair, especially a woman.


chikara

The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis).

A Hindu musical instrument of the violin class.


Carcel lamp

Named after its French inventor, Bernard Guillaume Carcel.

(historical) A mechanical lamp from the 19th century, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork.


Zep

Led Zeppelin, an English rock group most active in the 1970s and late 1960s.


whoof

Thor rose from beside the rock with a prodigious whoof that roused Muskwa.

1918, James Oliver Curwood, The Grizzly King:

A little whoof, like the sound that would be made by a baby and it asleep, came from Cona'n.

1920, James Stephens, Irish Fairy Tales:


atompunk

In fact, there was a fair amount of stuff around in the 60s and 70s that can only be explained as cross-dimensional leakage from an Atompunk universe.

2001 October 31, Simon Bradshaw, “Re: Steampunk Recommendations?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <memo.20011031191447.43761C@sjbradshaw.compulink.co.uk>:

Perfect "atompunk" feel – reactors with nervous engineers and analog controls.

2002 June 10, Mike Simone, “Re: Land Battleships”, in rec.arts.sf.science, rec.games.design (Usenet), message-ID <152bbdf6.0206101038.72e312be@posting.google.com>:

For the Legion, we're looking at 20th century futures rather than 19th. Analogies with steampunk might be "dieselpunk", "atompunk", or "rocketpunk" – but any Legion of Super-Heroes worthy of the name seems to be as far from the "punk" aspect as it's possible to get.

2004 March 6, Michael S. Schiffer, “Re: Earth-2 Legion Synopsis”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.lsh (Usenet), message-ID <Xns94A49BD7E514mss2mediaonenet@130.133.1.4>:

According to a mailing list from the Netherlands, Atompunk is devoted to the cultural period (mostly of the United States) of between 1945 to 1965. While the moniker hasn't become a part of our country's vernacular yet (though I'm sure some of you already started using it ages ago), it sounds just annoyingly catchy enough to warrant a New York Times trend piece in about eight years.

2012 April 8, Elaine Chow, “Space Age Fetishism Getting Silly New Moniker: Atompunk”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 2016-08-28:

Atompunk covers the pre-digital period of 1945–1965, including mid-century Modernism, the Atomic Age and Space Age. Throw Roger Thornhill's suits in this basket, and everything ever worn on Mad Men. This takes us right up to the mid '60s, when the fictional worlds of yesterday abut the real worlds you grew up in.

2012, William J. Thompson, “Time Travel”, in Dress Like a Grownup!: A Complete Tutorial for the Average Guy, 2nd edition, volume 1, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, part 2 (Advanced Theory), page 55:

You keep imagining someone 20 years from now reading The Peripheral the way that we read Neuromancer today, perplexed at the now-unfathomable ubiquity of cassettes and modems. We laugh at the past or mine it for influence – think of steampunk, atompunk, dieselpunk, and the million other microgenres based on the incongruity of old societies and future tech – but someday, the future is going to do the same to us.

2014 October 27, Adi Robertson, “William Gibson’s ‘The Peripheral’: Looking Back at the Future: A Smart, Nuanced Twist on Time Travel”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2017-05-05:

Additionally, while [Sebastian] Faulks aspires to write as [Ian] Fleming, he takes care to increase the serving of action, in fact including some interesting bits of atompunk—a nuclear-powered ekranoplan, Vulcan bombers.

2015, Nader Elhefnawy, The Forgotten James Bond, [s.l.]: [s.n.]:

(science fiction) A subgenre of speculative fiction, based on the society and technology of the Atomic Age (c. 1945–1969).


wough

As it scrambled swiftly over the edge it caught sight of the elephant and with a deep "wough!" charged straight at it.

The trapper shouted and waved his cap; whereupon, to his amazement, the bear uttered a loud "wough" and charged straight down on him--only to fall a victim to misplaced boldness.

1884, Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches:

Bough wough, The watch dogs bark, Bough wough, Hark, hark!

1863, Various, The Children's Garland from the Best Poets:


combustibly

en-adv

combustibly (comparative more combustibly, superlative most combustibly)

more combustibly (comparative)
most combustibly (superlative)

So it's not surprising that Terry McCabe's theatrically assured, combustibly comic staging is superior to Borealis Theatre's revival two months ago.

2003 November 28, Lawrence Bommer, “The Play's the Thing”, in Chicago Reader:

All at once holding his sides, he found a little breath and cried combustibly: "A can-can!"

1913, Owen Johnson, Murder in Any Degree:


mixmaster

And though self-styled Scratch protege Fraser, who will also be on hand for this concert, is competent, he isn't half the mixmaster Perry once was.

1997 November 7, John Corbett, “Lee "Scratch" Perry”, in Chicago Reader:


radiowaste

en-noun

radiowaste (countable and uncountable, plural radiowastes)


xenharmonic

Coined by Ivor Darreg, from xen- + harmonic

The back cover lists "Materials and Services", including Xenharmonikon (cooperation prevails in the xenharmonic world), and persons cooperating in a tape exchange--meaning that if you send a tape of your music, to someone on the list, you get back a tape of their music.

1978 September 20, Ivor Darreg, “A Xenharmonist's Message to the Computer Musicians”, in Computer Music Journal, volume 2, number 2, The MIT Press:

Dissonance scores can also be applied in situations where no musical score exists, and two examples are given: a xenharmonic piece by Carlos, and a Balinese gamelan performance.

2013, William A. Sethares, Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale, page 189:

Microtonal music is sometimes referred to as xenharmonic music, the term deriving from the Greek xenia (hospitable) and xenos (foreign or strange) (Chalmers 1974; Darreg 1977; Wilson 2014).

2015, Curtis Roads, Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic, page 219:

(music) Not conforming to the common 12-tone equal temperament.


monochord

Learned borrowing from Latin monochordon, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek μονόχορδον (monókhordon). By surface analysis, mono- + chord.

kanon

used in the context of ancient Greek music

If a musician were going to give a lecture upon the mathematical part of his art, he would find a very elegant substitute for the monochord in the Chinese kin.

1840, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams, The Chinese Repository, page 40:

A musical instrument for experimenting with the mathematical relations of musical sounds, consisting of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which can be moved, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.


almagra

en-noun

almagra (usually uncountable, plural almagras)

Borrowed from Spanish almagra (more commonly almagre), from Arabic الْمُغْرَة (al-muḡra, “red clay or earth”).


sesquialter

From Latin sēsquialter, from sēsqui- (“a half and a”) + alter (“another, a second”).

(music, obsolete) Synonym of sesquialteral, of or relating to 1½ notes.


sesquialter

(music, obsolete) Synonym of sesquialtera, a 1½ note.

(music, obsolete) Synonym of sesquialtera, an organ stop.


heliac

A stellarator in which the magnetic axis (and plasma) follows a helical path to form a toroidal helix rather than a simple ring shape.


augmented sixth chord

en-noun

augmented sixth chord (plural augmented sixth chords)

(music) a chord that contains a lowered submediant scale degree and a raised subdominant scale degree


Italian augmented sixth chord

Italian augmented sixth chord (plural Italian augmented sixth chords)

C Italian augmented sixth chord:
1

(music) a chord with the tonic, lowered submediant, and raised subdominant scale degrees


German augmented sixth chord

German augmented sixth chord (plural German augmented sixth chords)

C German augmented sixth chord:
1

(music) a chord with the tonic, lowered submediant, lowered mediant, and raised subdominant scale degrees


Neapolitan chord

Neapolitan chord (plural Neapolitan chords)

(music) A major chord with the lowered supertonic scale degree as the root, denoted by ♭II in Roman numeral notation.


French augmented sixth chord

French augmented sixth chord (plural French augmented sixth chords)

C French augmented sixth chord:
1

(music) a chord with the tonic, supertonic, lowered submediant, and raised subdominant scale degrees


Mittler's green

A green pigment made from chromium oxide.


Fr⁺⁶

French augmented sixth chord
French augmented sixth chord


It⁺⁶

Italian augmented sixth chord
Italian augmented sixth chord


German augmented sixth chord
German augmented sixth chord