hizz

en-verb

hizz (third-person singular simple present hizzes, present participle hizzing, simple past and past participle hizzed)

hizzes (present singular third-person)
hizzing (participle present)
hizzed (participle past)
hizzed (past)

To have a thousand with red burning spits / Come hizzing in upon 'em!

c. 1605–1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 3, scene 6:

The Wheels and Horses Hoofs hizzd as they past them ore.


self-immolate

self-immolate (third-person singular simple present self-immolates, present participle self-immolating, simple past and past participle self-immolated)

self-immolates (present singular third-person)
self-immolating (participle present)
self-immolated (participle past)
self-immolated (past)

A woman asked, hesitantly: “Is he the one who … self-immolated?”

2019 April 15, J Oliver Conroy, “A lawyer set himself on fire to protest climate change. Did anyone care?”, in The Guardian:

(intransitive) To set oneself on fire, especially as a form of protest.


yellow-red

en-adj

yellow-red (comparative more yellow-red, superlative most yellow-red)

more yellow-red (comparative)
most yellow-red (superlative)

From Middle English *yelwered, *ȝeoluread, from Old English ġeolurēad (“reddish yellow, orange”), equivalent to yellow + red.

inh

The spar buoy is a red and white horizontally striped pole with a yellow top and has a yellow-red ball at the top and a yellow triangular flag beneath the ball.

1953, Sailing Directions for Northern U.S.S.R., page 20:

After a few days the silver appeared to become more colloidal and the sections were stained a yellow-red color.

1953, International Review of Cytology, volume 2, page 86:

I'd been told many times that my yellow-red hair and peach skin were beautiful, that their contrast with my dark eyes was compelling.

2008, Traci L. Slatton, Immortal, page 6:

Her yellow-red eyes reflected the torches on either side of her throne. A black cape with a crimson lining finished the outfit, connecting to two red stones on her fingers. She could drop any mortal man dead just by her looks.

2010, Alexandra Livingston, Defy the Gods, page 8:

yellow-red:

Of a colour between yellow and red; orange.

Consisting of yellow and red colours individually.


yellow-red

Obviously one will be red, but will the other hue be a yellow-red (orange) or a red-purple?

1930, Benson H. Paul, C. A. Plaskett, Charles Nicholas Ainslie, A Method for Determining the Color of Agricultural Products:

The cultural meanings associated with yellow and yellow-red (orange) are varied.

2017, Jim Long, The New Munsell Student Color Set, page 33:


tripodian

(music) An ancient stringed instrument, resembling the Delphic tripod in form.


blue-red

en-adj

blue-red (comparative more blue-red, superlative most blue-red)

more blue-red (comparative)
most blue-red (superlative)

From blue + red. Compare Old English blēorēad (“blue-red, purple”).

cog

blue-red:

This unquiet feeling increases as the hue progresses, and it may be safely assumed, that a carpet of a perfectly pure deep blue-red [translating Blaurot] would be intolerable.

1840, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe's Theory of Colours:

A dye-stuff which dyes wool and silk in acid-bath in fine red-violet tints, dissolves in water with a blue-red color and a yellowish fluorescence, is sparingly soluble in alcohol, insoluble in ether and benzene, […]

1898, The Year-book for Colorists and Dyers, page 85:

Amyl alcohol extracts a blue-red color from material dyed with magenta, but extracts a yellow color from aurin, while from orchil a pink or violet color is obtained.

1908, Samuel Philip Sadtler, A Hand-book of Industrial Organic Chemistry:

(V), C₁₄H₉O₃NBr₂, dark crystals with cantharides luster, blackens above 230°, does not m. 310°, sol. in NaOH with blue-red color and very faint fluorescence.

1925, Chemical Abstracts, volume 19, page 2649:

Standing and moving to under one of the lights by the nav station I could see a dark blue-red mark across the right side of my rib cage. Prodding gently I realised I had just cracked or broken one or more ribs.

2013, Crispin Latymer, Where the Ocean Meets the Sky, page 48:

When hemoglobin is unoxygenated, blood assumes a darker blue-red color. Thus, blood coming from the lungs is well oxygenated and appears red. Blood leaving the tissues has given up its oxygen and appears blue-red.

2014, Barbara L. Herlihy, The Human Body in Health and Illness, page 289:

She ran her fingers down his leg, tugging up his jeans to reveal a blue-red bruise already starting to swell.

Of a colour between blue and red; purple or crimson.

a blue-red cock (rooster)

Consisting of the colours blue and red individually.


blue-red

en-noun

blue-red (countable and uncountable, plural blue-reds)

Let us suppose a red represented by the equivalent number, five, with one part of blue added to it, thus causing it to be a blue-red or crimson.

1981, The Technical Educator, an Encyclopædia:

A blue-red monochromatic color plan includes any hues created when blue-red is combined with white, black, and/or gray.

2014, Joen Wolfrom, Color Play, page 104:

A colour between blue and red; purple or crimson.


Argand lamp

Named after inventor Ami Argand of Geneva.

Never was a more lovely thought than that of the astral lamp. I mean, of course, the astral lamp proper, and do not wish to be misunderstood — the lamp of Argand with its original plain ground-glass shade, and its tempered and uniform moonlight rays.

1840, Edgar Allan Poe, The Philosophy of Furniture:

It is probable that Loutherbourg used Argand lamps to achieve his startling effects of meteorology in the Eidophusikon in the mid 1780s.

2007, Christopher Baugh, edited by Moody & O'Quinn, The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre 1730-1830, page 52:

(now historical) A type of oil lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame.

quinqué

a lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney


elamping

the cheerfull Sunne, elamping wide, is described
Glads all the world with his uprising raye

1610, Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victorie and Triumph, in Heaven, in Earth, over and after Death:


heliotheism

Sun-worship (solarism, or heliotheism) seems to the modern scientist to be the best of all forms of theism, and the one which may be most easily reconciled with modern monism.

1905, Ernst Haeckel, translated by Joseph McCabe, The Riddle of the Universe: At the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Harper & Brothers Publishers, page 280:

(theology) Worship of the Sun; belief that the Sun is a god.


sesquitone

(music) A minor third, or interval of three semitones.


jump blues

(music) A type of boogie-woogie blues music influenced by big band swing, typically performed by a seven-piece combo and characterized by use of horns, shuffle rhythm, group singing during the choruses and raunchy lyrics.


cannel coal

cannel coal (countable and uncountable, plural cannel coals)

Gerald was enthusiastic. After a while they shook hands, it being time to separate. And for a long time Selwyn sat there alone in the visitors’ room, absent-eyed, facing the blazing fire of cannel coal.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:


scarefire

From scare + fire. In some senses, alteration of scathefire.

Scarefire of Purgatory

1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:

(obsolete) A house-burning; conflagration; scathefire.


avant-metal

(music) A genre of heavy metal music characterized by experimental and unconventional elements.


lentando

From Italian [Term?], present participle of lentare (“to make slow”).


philomot

One of them was blue, another yellow, and another philomot

1712 January 14 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY, January 3, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 265; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:


carthamin

Carthamus tinctorius
Carthamus tinctorius#Translingual

(organic chemistry) A red pigment obtained from the safflower, Carthamus tinctorius.


Fresnel lantern

Fresnel lantern (plural Fresnel lanterns)

A lantern used in theatre, which employs a Fresnel lens to wash light over an area of the stage.


systaltic

From Latin systalticus (“drawing together”), from Ancient Greek συσταλτικός (sustaltikós), from συστέλλω (sustéllō). Compare systole.

(music) Of Ancient Greek music: having a depressing influence.


cornettino

cornettino (plural cornettinos or cornettini)

cornettinos (plural)
cornettini (plural)

(music) The descant instrument of the cornetto family.


faburden

From French faux bourdon. See false, and burden (“a verse”).

(music) A kind of counterpoint with a drone bass.

(music) A succession of chords of the sixth.


forsweal

en-verb

forsweal (third-person singular simple present forsweals, present participle forswealing, simple past and past participle forswealed)

forsweals (present singular third-person)
forswealing (participle present)
forswealed (participle past)
forswealed (past)

From Middle English forswelen, forswælen, from Old English forswǣlan (“to burn, burn up, inflame, consume”), equivalent to for- + sweal.


alizari

en-noun

alizari (countable and uncountable, plural alizaris)

From French alizari (“madder root (commercial name)”), from Greek αλιζάρι (alizári, “madder”), from Ottoman Turkish آلاجهری (ala cehri).

bor

the able Holland merchants dispersed it in all the markets of Europe , after they had mixed it with the alizaris of Levant

1849, United States. Dept. of Agriculture, Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture:

(archaic) The madder of the Levant; wild madder (Rubia peregrina).


chakacha

A traditional Swahili style of music and dance.


compound interval

en-noun

compound interval (plural compound intervals)

(music) An interval that is greater than an octave.


false harmonic

(music, stringed instruments) a harmonic produced by lightly touching the string at the point where the notated pitch is played, but producing a different pitch


semiditone

(music) The lesser third, having its terms as 6 to 5; a hemiditone.


coal-meter

(obsolete, UK) A licensed or official coal measurer in London.


foldback

foldback (countable and uncountable, plural foldbacks)

(music) The use of rear-facing heavy-duty loudspeakers on stage during live music performances, to improve sound for the audience or to allow performers to hear and monitor themselves.


natural harmonic

natural harmonic (plural natural harmonics)

(music) a sound produced by lightly touching the string as opposed to pressing it against the fingerboard, usually with the actual pitch notated

Although stopping may have served to produce some chromatic sounds, and partially filled up some of the smaller gaps in the natural harmonic series, the characteristic clearness of trumpet-tone was largely lost when the instrument was thus muted by having the passage through the bell closed by the hand.

1939, Adam Carse, Musical Wind Instruments, →ISBN, pages 235–236:

Desirably, a tuner gives the separate Larigot 1 1/3' rank the same perfect pitch as the natural harmonic.

1970, Thomas Scott Godfrey Burhrman, The American Organist - Volume 53, page 11:

Each valve or valve combination forms its own natural harmonic series; however, every valve instrument is by nature out of tune with the equal tempered scale. That is, certain pitches within the natural harmonic series are out of tune relative to the pitches used in equal temperament.

2009, Mark C. Ely, Amy E. Van Deuren, Wind Talk for Brass, →ISBN, page 65:

(music) The series of pitches produced by a wind instrument without modulation by a mute, valves, or keys.


quadrium

The decimal character of 4.1 is a reminder that this is not a conventional H isotope such as quadrium, ⁴H, or other isotopes up to ⁷H, with lifetimes, when known in the 0.1 to 1 zs range.

2011, “Kinetic Isotope Effects for the Reactions of Muonic Helium and Muonium with H₂”, in Science, volume 331, number 6016, page 448:

(physics, rare) A highly unstable synthetic isotope of the element hydrogen, ⁴₁H, having one proton and three neutrons.


a capriccio

From Italian capriccio (“sudden start or motion”).

bor

(music) At whatever tempo and with whatever expression the conductor or performer desires.


clarichord

From Latin clarus (“clear”) + chorda (“string”). See chord.

An old musical instrument similar to a spinet, manichord or clavichord.


wobble board

A musical instrument consisting of a flat board which is held in the hands and shaken so that the board flexes in order to produce a rhythmic "whoop-whoop" noise.


accent mark

(music) A mark used to represent specific stress on a note.

(music) A mark placed after a letter designating a note of music to indicate the octave in which it occurs.


thoroughbass

en-noun

thoroughbass (countable and uncountable, plural thoroughbasses)


sonance

sonance (countable and uncountable, plural sonances)

[T]hen let the Trumpets ſound / The Tucket Sonuance, and the Note to mount: / For our approach ſhall ſo much dare the field, / That England ſhall couch downe in feare, and yeeld.

c. 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act IV, scene ii, page 86:

(obsolete) The quality or state of being sonant.


aneutronic

en-adj

aneutronic (comparative more aneutronic, superlative most aneutronic)

more aneutronic (comparative)
most aneutronic (superlative)

(nuclear physics) That does not involve or radiate neutrons


spadiceous

spadiceous (comparative more spadiceous, superlative most spadiceous)

more spadiceous (comparative)
most spadiceous (superlative)

From Latin spadix, spadicis (“a date-brown or nut-brown color”). See spadix.

Of those five [horns] which Scaliger beheld, though one spadiceous, or of a light red, and two inclining to red, yet was there not any of this complexion among them.

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

Of a bright clear brown or chestnut colour.


snap pizzicato

en-noun

snap pizzicato (countable and uncountable, plural snap pizzicatos)

(uncountable, music, stringed instruments) The act of plucking a string in a way that makes it hit the fingerboard.

(countable, music, stringed instruments) A note played in such a way.


double-tonguing

double-tonguing (countable and uncountable, plural double-tonguings)

(music) A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes.

(music) The rapid repetition of notes in cornet or trumpet playing.


jibaro

jibaro (countable and uncountable, plural jibaros)

The cultivation of the crops is entirely in the hands of the jibaro, or peasant, who is seldom of direct Spanish descent, while the financiering and exportation is conducted almost entirely by peninsulares, or Spanish-born colonists, who monopolize every branch of commerce to the exclusion of the colonian-born subject.

1898, Murat Halstead, The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions,:


melomaniac

From melo- (prefix meaning “music”) (from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “song; melody, tune”)) + -maniac (from French maniaque, from Late Latin maniacus, from Ancient Greek μανιακός (maniakós), an adjectival form of μανία (manía, “madness; mad desire, compulsion”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”)).

der

He then amused himself with the fiddle—tried the French horn for a season, varying the matter by a few lessons upon the clarionet and hautboy, and finally improving his powers of endurance by a little practising of the Kent bugle. He at length became a perfect melomaniac, and was always in danger of being indicted as a nuisance by his less scientific neighbours, whose ears were doomed to suffer both by night and by day.

1850, Joseph C[lay] Neal, “Music Mad; or, The Melomaniac”, in Pic-nic Sketches, Dublin: Published by James M'Glashan, →OCLC, page 213:

Of all the animals, the lions were apparently the most susceptible to musical influence, and these royal beasts showed an interest in the sweet tones of the graphophone, akin to that of a human melomaniac.

1910, Robert Means Lawrence, “The Healing Influence of Music”, in Primitive Psycho-therapy and Quackery, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press Cambridge [Mass.], →OCLC, page 176:

The truth was that Padre Irene, who was a melomaniac of the first degree and knew French well, had been sent to the theater by Padre Salvi as a sort of religious detective, or so at least he told the persons who recognized him.

1912, José Rizal, “The Performance”, in Charles Derbyshire, transl., The Reign of Greed: A Complete English Version of El Filibusterismo from the Spanish of José Rizal (Project Gutenberg; EBook #10676), Manila: Philippine Education Company, published 10 October 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-07-02, page 215:

A short time before he had gone to Baireuth to hear the Wagnerian operas, and now in the capital of Bavaria he attended the theater of the Residence, where the Mozart festival was celebrated. Jaime was not a melomaniac, but his vagrant existence forced him with the crowd, and his accomplishment as an amateur pianist had led him to make his musical pilgrimage for two consecutive years.

1919, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, “Bartering the Ancestral Name”, in Frances Douglas, transl., The Dead Command … From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan, New York, N.Y.: Duffield & Company, →OCLC, page 63:

To these varying degrees of sensation correspond spiritual realizations sufficiently precise and distinct to allow me to accord to plastic expression a value that on the other hand I shall never cease to refuse to musical expression, the most deeply confusing of all. Auditive images, in fact, are inferior to visual images not only in clearness but also in strictness, and with all due respect to a few melomaniacs, they hardly seem intended to strengthen in any way the idea of human greatness.

1936, André Breton, translated by David Gascoyne, What is Surrealism? (Criterion Miscellany; no. 43), London: Faber and Faber, →OCLC, pages 9–24; reprinted in Herschel B. Chipp, “Surrealism”, in Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics (California Studies in the History of Art), Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif., London: University of California Press, 1968, →ISBN, page 403:

One with an abnormal fondness of music; a person who loves music.

melomaan

one with an abnormal fondness of music; person who loves music


aulete

From the Ancient Greek αὐλητής (aulētḗs), from αὐλέω (auléō, “I play the flute”), from αὐλός (aulós, “flute”).


fordim

en-verb

fordim (third-person singular simple present fordims, present participle fordimming, simple past and past participle fordimmed)

fordims (present singular third-person)
fordimming (participle present)
fordimmed (participle past)
fordimmed (past)

From Middle English fordimmen, from Old English fordimmian (“to obscure, darken”), equivalent to for- + dim.

inh

(transitive, obsolete) To dim; darken; obscure.


forburn

en-verb

forburn (third-person singular simple present forburns, present participle forburning, simple past and past participle forburned or forburnt)

forburns (present singular third-person)
forburning (participle present)
forburned (participle past)
forburned (past)
forburnt (participle past)
forburnt (past)

From Middle English forburnen, forbrinnen, from Old English forbirnan (intransitive) and forbærnan (transitive), equivalent to for- + burn. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ferbaadenje, ferbaanje (“to burn up”), West Frisian ferbarne (“to burn up”), German Low German verbrannen (“to burn up”), German verbrennen (“to burn up, incinerate”).

cog

(intransitive) To burn; be burnt; be consumed by fire; to be on fire.


(physics) An isotope of yttrium, ⁹⁰₃₉Y, that is used in radiotherapy


technetate

(inorganic chemistry) Any oxyanion of technetium; any salt containing such an anion.


deathpunk

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


thorotrast

Blend of thorium + contrast. Originally a trade name.

(medicine) A radiographic contrast medium composed of a suspension of thorium dioxide.


street organ

(music) A type of mechanically-played barrel organ designed to be played in the street.


hardbag

Blend of hard + handbag, i.e. a harder form of the earlier genre handbag or handbag house.

They present a wide range of dance styles, including electro, trance, acid house, handbag, hardbag, hardcore, happy hardcore, drum-and-bass, hi-NRG and even industrial.

2003, Aline Scott-Maxwell, John Whiteoak, Currency companion to music and dance in Australia:

A melodic genre of electronic dance music of the mid-1990s, usually with female vocals.


grungester

(informal) A fan of grunge music or subculture; a grunger.


foxcore

From fox + -core. See fox (“attractive woman”).

Music by female-fronted bands of the 1990s.


carbochemistry

The chemistry of carbon, especially the chemical transformation of coal into industrially useful materials


colcothar

en-noun

colcothar (countable and uncountable, plural colcothars)

(organic chemistry, obsolete) Polishing rouge; a reddish-brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment.


a bene placito

Borrowed from Italian a bene placito (“at pleasure”).


near field

(acoustics) The region within a distance a fraction of a wavelength from a sound source. Accordingly, the outer boundary of the near-field region is closer for high-pitched sound than for low-pitched sound.


mezza voce

From Italian mezza voce, from mezza (feminine of from mezzo (“middle, half”)) + voce (“voice”).


autothermic

(physical chemistry, of a reaction) exothermic to an extent that the generated heat sustains the reaction


absinthe yellow

absinthe yellow:


absinthe green

A moderate yellow green.
absinthe green:


ubac

Borrowed from Occitan ubac, from Latin opācus. Doublet of opaque.

The distribution of barley is generally on the adret slope, the ubac seeming to be disregarded. A sunny slope is the most important natural factor in the cultivation of barley and wheat. Very rarely they are cultivated in ubac fields, but close investigation showed them to be of secondary adret nature. In this case seeds are sown a month earlier and mown ten days later than on the adret slope.

1942, Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography: Transactions, Titles and Abstracts, Tokyo: Nihon Gakujutsu Kaigi [Science Council of Japan], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34:

Viticulure in an alpine (Savoie) or sub-alpine environment (like the Jura) is a precarious activity […] Exposure, by contrast, exaggerates or modifies the quantity of the altitudinal elements in terms of ubac (shady) versus adret (sunny) positions, wet and dry positions, or windy and protected positions, respectively. The advantages of adret slopes, which are usually drier and more protected, are evident and of paramount importance. Adret aspects receive much higher levels of direct sunlight, which produces higher soil and plant temperatures.

1987, John J. Baxevanis, “The Wines of Savoie”, in The Wines of Champagne, Burgundy, Eastern and Southern France, Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, pages 70–71:

(geography) The shady side of a mountain; in the northern hemisphere, especially a north-facing slope.

obaga

a shady slope i.e. facing away from the sun


audio mastering

audio mastering (countable and uncountable, plural audio masterings)

(sound) A form of audio post-production, where the recorded audio is prepared and transferred from a source containing the final mix to a data-storage device called the "master".


yarl

Presumably onomatopoeic. Coined by Josh Sinder and Alex Sibbald of the band Hot Rod Lunatics.

So pontificating on how Weathereds earnest morass of block-headed rage, grunge-lite mega-riffs and singer Scott Stapp's machismo yarl' amounts to little more than Pearl Jam circa '91 for dummies is like shooting fish in a barrel.

2002 January 9, Patrick Berkery, “Record Review - 1 January 09 2002”, in Creative Loafing, Atlanta:

One of my college kids informed me that the latest acoustic grinder hunk had covered it for a soundtrack — probably with that grungy yarl that everybody ripped off from Eddie Vedder.

2008, Michael J. Vaughn, Outro, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 10:

A deep, guttural vocal style with affected pronunciation, characteristic of male grunge and postgrunge singers of the 1990s and early 2000s.


techstep

(music) A subgenre of drum and bass music heavily influenced by techno and industrial music.


dichlorophenolindophenol

(organic chemistry) A blue chemical compound used as a redox dye.


gobo

Uncertain; possibly from go-b(etween) (“intermediary, middleman”) + -o (suffix forming informal terms).

suffix

(sound engineering) A device used to shield a microphone from extraneous sounds.


orchestrelle

He had the orchestrelle moved to Dublin, although it was no small undertaking, for he needed the solace of its harmonies; […]

1912, Albert Bigelow Paine, chapter CCXXXV, in Mark Twain, A Biography: Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907:

(historical, music) A player organ designed to mimic the sound of an orchestra, manufactured and used from the late 19th century to early 20th century.


bazoo

Probably from Dutch bazuin (“trumpet”). First attested in the mid 19th c..

It goes against the grain to toot one’s own “bazoo”

1894, “Splendid work of the National Association of Dental Faculties”, in Dominion Dental Journal, volume VI, page 221:

Born Charles Westover in Coopersville, Michigan, on 30 December 1939, he learned to play the bazoo, ukulele and, eventually, the guitar.

2012, Sharon Davis, Every Chart Topper Tells a Story:

The bully girl with a crystal optic and tin horn was at the jollification. She “tooted her bazoo” in concert with Hon. Nelson’s horn, and wanted “White husbands or none.”

2017 May 1, Peter Jensen Brown, quoting Leavenworth Weekly Times, July 21, 1870, “Bazoo, Kazoo, Bazooka”, in Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog:

(Canada, US, dated) A simple wind instrument, such as a kazoo or tin horn.

If any galoot in the mob knows of anything that mout block the game ef tuk to a higher court, let him now toot his bazoo, or else keep his jaw to himself now and forever more.

1881, Paul the Pilgrim, “A Wyoming Wedding”, in Wit and Wisdom, page 12:

"As for the screechin', one bazoo's as good as a dozen, if so be ye blow it fierce enough."

1902, Francis Lynde, The Master of Appleby, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 504:

No doubt you have heard the expression, “He blows his bazoo too much.” In Arkansas that is said of a “windy” guy who talks too much.

2013, Charles Earle Funk, Thereby Hangs a Tale:


dital

From Italian [Term?], from Latin digitus (“finger”).

(music) A finger-operated key for raising the pitch of a guitar by a semitone.


support act

An entertainer or musician, or group thereof, that performs before the main event.


new jill swing

(music) New jack swing music performed by female musicians.


solarism

en-noun

solarism (usually uncountable, plural solarisms)


kerfing

Do you prefer bent solid linings or kerfings in your guitar? If kerfings, would you like regular or reversed kerfing?

(music, chiefly lutherie) A thin strip of wood kerfed to allow easy bending and then glued inside the body of a string instrument along the rim between its two abutting sides to reinforce the joint.


Bartók pizzicato

Bartók pizzicato (countable and uncountable, plural Bartók pizzicatos)

From the name of composer Béla Bartók. There is an indication for the Celli and Double Basses in the 3rd mvt. of Gustave Mahler's 7th Symphony: which states: "so stark anreissen, das die saiten an das holz schlagen" (Pull so hard that the strings hit the wood). Mahler lived before Bartok, so this snap effect is falsely attributed to Bartok.


steam coal

steam coal (usually uncountable, plural steam coals)

A coal which has a grade between bituminous coal and anthracite, and which was once widely used as a fuel for steam engines in ships and locomotives.


interversion

interversion (countable and uncountable, plural interversions)

Reti's explanation that interversion is sometimes responsible for thematic unity, while without academic precedent, is based upon an acute perception of musical structure.

1963, Alan Walker, A Study in Musical Analysis, page 74:

Repeated permutation according to this reading order, which Messiaen explores in full in "Île de Feu," results in ten different interversions (as the last column in the table shows, the tenth interversion restores the chromatic pitches in their order from 1 to 12).

2008, Siglind Bruhn, Messiaen's Interpretations of Holiness and Trinity, →ISBN:

But the two are not just related. They are the same! Inversion, retrogradation, retrograe, inversion, augmentation, diminution, partition, interversion, exclusion, inclusion, and textural change -- these composing operations are the very ones described by Holywelkin's equations!

2014, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Memory of Whiteness: A Scientific Romance, →ISBN:

Theree is a clear distinction between the type of interversion utilised in the 'Experimental period' (1949-51) and the compositions of the early 1960s.

2016, Gareth Healey, Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond, →ISBN:

(music) A composition technique in which a sequence of elements composed of notes or rhythms is repeated in permuted orders.


tremulant

From Italian tremolante (“trembling, shaking”).

bor

The tremulant is a small apparatus that gives to the tone of any department of an organ to which it may be applied a waving or undulating effect.

1855, Edward J. Hopkins, “XVI: The Tremulant”, in The Organ: Its History and Construction, page 70:

The tremulant intentionally disturbs the stability of the wind in order to produce a desirable musical oscillation.

2009, John R. Shanon, Understanding the Pipe Organ, →ISBN, page 22:

(music) A mechanical component of a musical organ, designed to add vibration to the sounds produced by the instrument.


rosalia

Compare French rosalie. Doublet of rusalka.

(music) A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a tone or semi-tone higher or lower


additional accompaniment

en-noun

additional accompaniment (countable and uncountable, plural additional accompaniments)

(music) The practice of enlarging and revising the orchestration of an earlier work, usually a Baroque piece, to accommodate the larger contemporary orchestras and tastes of the time.


colotomy

(music) The rhythmic and metric patterns of gamelan music, involving the use of specific instruments to mark off nested time intervals.


chironomy

chironomy (usually uncountable, plural chironomies)

From French chironomie and directly from Latin chīronomia, from Ancient Greek χειρονομία (kheironomía, “gesturing, gesticulation”), from χειρονόμος (kheironómos, “mime, skilled gesturer”), from χειρο- (kheiro-, “hand-”) + νόμος (nómos, “controller, manager”), from νέμω (némō, “to control, to manage”).

der

(music) The skill of conducting music with hand gestures.


Eddington luminosity

en-noun

Eddington luminosity (plural Eddington luminosities)

Named after British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington

named-after

hydrostatic equilibrium
hydrostatic equilibrium

(physics) The maximum luminosity of a source where the continuum radiation force outwards balances the gravitational force inwards in hydrostatic equilibrium.


N-ray

Compare X-ray. N stands for the University of Nancy in France, where the supposed discovery was made.

A discredited hypothetical form of radiation described in 1903.


semidiapente

It will have its true ratio from the tritone and the major semitone, but not from that of the semidiapente and the minor semitone, as the next calculation shows.

2003, Vincenzo Galilei, Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music (translated from Italian by Claude V. Palisca)


apotome

Apotome
Euclid's Elements
Pythagoreanism#Music

Borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀποτομή (apotomḗ, “cutting off”). The musical sense originates from the Pythagorean tradition. The mathematical sense is attested in Euclid's Elements (Book X, proposition 73, et seq.).

bor

1813, Music, article in John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth, Pantologia: A New Cyclopaedia, Volume 8: MID—OZO, unnumbered page,
This semitone was termed by the Pythagoreans apotome, and the diatonic semitone was termed limma. They contended, that the apotome, or distance from B flat to B natural, was larger than the limma, or distance from A to B flat.

For the ratio of the excess of the apotome, above that which is truly a semitone, and which cannot be obtained in numbers, is thus called. This then is demonstrated. To what has been said however, it must be added, that we have called the ratio of d b a semitone, not that a sesquioctave is divided into two equal ratios; for no superparticular ratio is capable of being so divided; but because the followers of Aristoxenus assume a semitone after two sesquioctaves, the ratio of a semitone is assumed, as we have said, according to their position, in order to discover what the ratio is of the comma and apotome to the ratio of the leimma.

1820, Proclus, translated by Thomas Taylor, The Commentaries of Proclus on the Timæus of Plato, Volume 2, Facsimile edition, published 1967, pages 66–67:

The traditional term, from ancient Greek theory, for the diatonic pythagorean semitone is 'limma'; and for the larger, chromatic semitone, ‘apotome’.
The oldest extant fretting formula, that of the ninth-century theorist Al-Kindi for the ud (the Arabic lute), is pythagorean. It calls for five frets, to make the following succession of semitones down from nut: limma, apotome, limma, apotome', limma.

1984, Mark Lindley, Lutes, Viols, Temperaments, Cambridge University Press, page 9:

(music) The remaining part of a whole tone after a minor second has been deducted from it; an augmented unison. Most commonly used to refer to the Pythagorean chromatic semitone, which has a ratio of 2187/2048.


diazeuctic

Ancient Greek διαζευκτικός (diazeuktikós, “disjunctive”).

uder

διαζευκτικός

the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth

(music, obsolete) Disjoining two fourths.


ribibe

Well, my friend, and where is your ribibe, or such like instrument, belonging to a minstrel?

1841, Maria Elizabeth Budden, True Stories from English History. Chronologically Arranged:

"The tones of lutes and ribibes [translating German Ribeben]
I have right masterly and fine As ordered by imperial might.

1850, “Augustin, court musician to the emperor Maximilian I.”, in Hugh James Rose, editor, A New General Biographical Dictionary, volume 2:

The tone of the rubebe was similar to that of the lower register of the modern viola. As it possessed but two strings, however, its range was necessarily limited.

1880, Emil Naumann, translated by F. Praeger, The History of Music, volume 1, pages 258–259:

The Rybybe is well portrayed among the Norman carvings of the twelfth century which adorn the south doorway of Barfreston Church in Kent (Plate XV).

1911, Francis William Galpin, Old English Instruments of Music, page 81:

Over the high-altar at Gloucester the bosses, which are foliated in the rest of the choir, represent angel-musicians, whose varied orchestra would have out-rivalled that of Nebuchadnezzar the King; harp, hutchet and psaltery; lute, clarion, shawm; bag-pipe, ribibe, gittern; bozine, symphony, cymbals; organ, tabor and timbrel, the very names ring in one's ears like the stately cadences of celestial music.

1935, Mary Désirée Anderson, The Medieval Carver, page 86:

The rebec or ribibe, a favourite instrument with Chaucer, may be counted as one of the precursors of our violin.

1937, Philip K. Hitti, History of The Arabs:

The Persian hunting scene, the Arabian ribibi. Here, that is, in Janequin we find ground for one of the basic dissociations of music.

(historical) A kind of stringed instrument; a rebec or an instrument similar to it.


bariolage

(music) A rapid alternation of two notes on two strings of a violin etc


nutty slack

Mr. Nabarro asked the Minister of Fuel and Power the calorific value of nutty slack currently being marketed to domestic consumers, ration-free, by the National Coal Board, compared with normal house coals; what quantity of nutty slack is to be available, in total, during the present coal-winter; the market response to date; how much nutty slack it is estimated will be sold this winter; and whether nutty slack is to be a permanent, ration-free feature of our domestic fuel economy.

1953 February 2, Gerald Nabarro, Member of Parliament for Kidderminster, “Nutty Slack”, in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Commons Official Report (House of Commons of the United Kingdom), volume 510, London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, columns 1460–1461:

(British, historical) A cheap fuel consisting of slack (“coal dust”) and nuts (“small lumps of coal”); unlike other solid fuels it was not rationed during the period after World War II.


technorock

With its mix of European technorock, funk, and rapping, “Planet Rock” was a model of fusion that imagined unity across cultures the same way Bambaataa had created unity across gang lines.

2011, Sujatha Fernandes, Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation:

Wynette even dipped to self-parody, recording with the English-based technorock group KLF, scoring a British hit in 1992 with “Justified and Ancient.”

2005, Richard Carlin, Country, page 221:

A genre combining elements of techno and rock music.


cock rock

Ellen performs with incredible force and strength. Her guitar style is unique and very special, and her slide work could probably destroy any number of male institutions, particularly the one that says women can't play electric guitar, plus the feminist myth that all electric music is cock-rock. Ellen could probably squash the main proponents of cock-rock under her thumb-pick.

1979 August 18, Maida Tilchen, Ellie McIlwaine, “The Diversity of Women's Music”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, page 9:

People have this image of us. They think we're cock rock. It's time to rein it in a bit. We're not going, Wahey! and pouring champagne on girls' tits.

2004, Dave Black, The Darkness "Talking":

Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.

2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:

(informal) A style of rock music performed by male bands, emphasizing aggressive sexuality.


bluebeat

From blue + beat, named after Blue Beat Records.

Reggae music came to the UK shores as bluebeat and later through names like ska and rocksteady.

1971 November 13, Billboard, volume 83, number 46, page 34:

Chris returned with a trunk full of bluebeat 45s that sold out in days. On his next trip he decided to learn more about the Jamaican music business.

2010, Joe Boyd, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, page 180:

There we could all dance, or in my case tap my feet the night away to OUR music: ska, bluebeat and motown.

2011, Ted Curtis, Robert Dellar, Leslie Esther, Mad Pride, page 38:

Bluebeat and ska from a boombox on the pavement. A suedehead dancing a delirious, inebriated moonstomp with a girl who looked like a solicitor's apprentice.

2013, Joseph O'Connor, Where Have You Been?, page 271:

Any of various styles of Jamaican music, popular in the United Kingdom in the 1960s.


khaki green

en-noun

khaki green (countable and uncountable, plural khaki greens)

Rae wore khaki-green. Khaki-green and khaki-brown were his favourite colours, his image.

2001, *Leila Aboulela, The Translator, →ISBN, page 61:

khaki green:

A colour between khaki and green; light olive drab.


jazz poetry

(poetry, jazz) A form of poetry of the 1920s employing jazz-like rhythm or a feeling of improvisation.


portative organ

portative organ (plural portative organs)

(music) A small pipe organ with one rank of flue pipes, sometimes arranged in two rows, to be played while strapped to the performer at a right angle.


pandura

From Late Latin pandura, from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα (pandoûra), a Pre-Greek/substrate loan. Doublet of mandola.

(music) An Ancient Greek stringed instrument, a kind of lute with three strings that were stopped with a fingerboard to alter the tone, and with either a mandolin- or banjo-like shape.


light day

(astronomy, physics) A unit of length equal to the distance light travels in one day; about 170 astronomical units


sesquialteral

From Latin sesquialter + English -al, from sesqui (“a half and a”) + alter (“another, a second”).

(music) Of or related to sesquialtera, 1½ notes.


microbarom

Microbaroms are a significant noise source that can potentially interfere with the detection of infrasound from nuclear explosions.

(acoustics) A kind of atmospheric infrasonic wave generated in marine storms by a non-linear interaction of ocean surface waves with the atmosphere.


chrysoidine

chrysoidine (countable and uncountable, plural chrysoidines)

Ancient Greek χρυσός (khrusós, “gold”) + -oid + -ine.

A yellow-orange crystalline dye, C₆H₅N₂.C₆H₃(NH₂)₂.


cornopean

From Latin cornus (“horn”) + English paean (“song of praise”).

[…]outside the school-gates were drawn up several chaises […] and a cornopean player, hired for the occasion, blowing away "A southerly wind and a cloudy sky," waking all peaceful inhabitants half-way down the High Street.

1857, Thomas Hughes, chapter 7, in Tom Brown's School Days, part I:

(music, obsolete) A large valved horn or trumpet, similar to the orchestral cornet (cornet-à-piston).


deparaffinization

(oil industry) The removal of paraffin and ceresin from petroleum products


natural trumpet

natural trumpet (plural natural trumpets)

A valveless brass instrument that is able to play the notes of the harmonic series.


photochlorination

photochlorination (countable and uncountable, plural photochlorinations)


A&R

Alternative forms: A & R, A. & R.

Those visiting British A&R men realized that it would be hard to package the Detroit music they were hearing as house: it was colder and more electronicky, its lineage was not disco, and it was more obviously conceptualized […]

1999, Mireille Silcott, Rave America: New School Dancescapes, page 27:

I would describe him as an A&R of pop culture. He's a really multidimensional person that has so much to offer. He knows so many people, he loves art and he was a very huge moving factor in us meeting. Thank you, Thom [Muah].

2024 May 10, Justin Moran, quoting Isaac Dunbar, “Isaac Dunbar and Kerri Colby Were Built for This”, in Paper:

artist(s) and repertoire/repertory
w:artists and repertoire

(music industry) Initialism of artist(s) and repertoire/repertory.


Rb-Sr

The age of the Panda intrusion has been dated precisely by Rb-Sr determinations on kimberlitic phlogopite (n = 7), yielding a robust isochron of 53.3±0.6 Ma (Early Eocene, Ypresian).

2012, Wolfe AP, Csank AZ, Reyes AV, McKellar RC, Tappert R, et al., "Pristine Early Eocene Wood Buried Deeply in Kimberlite from Northern Canada", PLoS ONE 7(9): e45537. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0045537


rubidium-strontium

Isotopic dating of meteorites using the rubidium-strontium system and others indicates that the most primitive rocks in the solar system are 4.56 billion years old, determined rather precisely.

1999, Jonathan I Lunine, Earth: Evolution of a Habitable World, page 101:

(attributive) Designating a method of geological dating based on the relative amounts in rock of rubidium-87 and its beta-decay product, strontium-87.


gold ochre

gold ochre (countable and uncountable, plural gold ochres)

/ɡəʊld ˈəʊkə(ɹ)/

gold ochre:

A dark yellowish color, a yellowish shade of ochre or olive.


Elvisdom

The messages cover every aspect of Elvisdom. Every day there are new fans with felt pens arriving to make their mark. And, inevitably, in and amongst the messages from the faithful, a few wags have left their contributions: "Elvis, you came, you saw, you conquered, you croaked."

1992, Ted Harrison, Elvis People: The Cult of the King, Fount, →ISBN, page 78:

The sphere or fandom of singer Elvis Presley.


Beatledom

One problem of relationships remained as a result of Ringo's Beatledom for he had been a valuable member of an excellent group called the Hurricanes, led by Rory Storme, one of the liveliest and most likeable young men on the Scene.

1964, Brian Epstein, A Cellarful of Noise, Pierian Press (1964), page 70


PRMS

Rosneft said its hydrocarbon reserve life was 26 years, 23 years for oil and 66 years for gas, under the PRMS rules.

2010, “Rosneft retained world's biggest reserves in 2009”, in Reuters:

(petrochemistry) Initialism of Petroleum Resources Management System.


choogle

Coined by John Fogerty of the band Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Hawkins was the king of the choogle, a southern guitarist from Louisiana who played with the down home swamp funk sound that characterized his greatest hit, the 1957 smash "Suzie Q," a tremendous inspiration on bayou rocker John Fogerty, who used it to get Creedence Clearwater Revival their first hit in the 70's.

1980, Ronald Zalkind, Contemporary Music Almanac, page 234:

Their sound was a collision of glam rock strut, Stooges thuggery, and pub rock choogle.

2013, Chris Handyside, Fell in Love with a Band: The Story of The White Stripes, →ISBN, page 85:

Highlights include the voodoo-choogle swamp rock of It's A Cold Night For Alligators and the driving, bubbling groove of Sputnik, driven along by Jeff Sutton's disco-tight, Clem Burke-like drumming, which Billy Miller claims is Roky's answer song to Joe Meek's Telstar.

2015, Ben Graham, A Gathering of Promises, →ISBN:

In fact, it might be a stretch to call R.E.O. Speedwagon prog at all, if they didn't temper the riverboat-pianoed bonfire-in-the-woods choogle of their first two albums with occasional outrageously ambitious, amp-cranking, Hammond-pumping gloom monsters that, like sundry early Kansas/ Head East / Styx tracks, seemed to owe more than a bit to the majestic post-psychedelic organ-metal funderals of the UK's Uriah Heep.

2016, Chuck Eddy, Terminated for Reasons of Taste, →ISBN:


Saxon green

A green colour produced by dyeing with yellow upon a ground of Saxon blue.


slow march

Germany's newest song hit was hummed in streetcars, in movie theaters and at political meetings. . . . Its slow march tune was catchy, and its lyrics fitted Berlin's melancholy mood.

1946 January 21, “Music: Berlin Hit”, in Time:

(music) A march with a relatively slow tempo.


decameride

(music, obsolete) An interval of pitch equal to 1/10 of a heptameride, or 1/3010 of an octave.


eptameride

1963, Scripta Mathematica, vol. 1, page 296, ISSN 0036-9713.
Later he spoke of "subdividing each Eptameride into ten parts, called Decamerides." But he did not use this more subtle division in practice.

The second contribution of Sauveur is the development of a more exact method of computing intervals based upon logarithmic numbers which he terms merides, eptamerides and decamerides.

1964, James Woodrow Krehbiel, “Harmonic Principles of Jean-Philippe Rameau and his Contemporaries”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), →OCLC, page 9:

1991, Theoria, vol. 5-6, page 26, ISSN 1554-1312.
The interval of the fifth, it will be recalled, contains 176 eptamerides or 25 merides (plus 1 eptameride).

The Merides were divided into seven parts called Eptamerides. For more subtle distinctions, Sauveur suggested using Decamerides, 10 of which comprised one Eptameride.

2004, J. Murray Barbour, Tuning and Temperament: A Historical Survey, →ISBN, page 122:

(music, obsolete) Alternative spelling of heptameride


heptameride

From French heptaméride, from Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”) + French méride (compare meridian).

Sauveur divided the heptameride into two demi-heptamerides. One demi-heptameride is 1/602 of an octave, with frequency ratio 1:2^(1/602) = 1.001 154 or 1.993 cents, very nearly 1/12 of a ditonic comma.

1984, Joseph Sauveur (trans. Rudolf Rasch), Collected Writings on Musical Acoustics: (Paris 1700-1713), →ISBN, page 28:

As 301 = 7 × 43, he called each degree a heptameride, which he made = .03987 of an (equal) Semitone.

2007, Translator's notes in: Hermann von Helmholtz, On the Sensations of Tone, →ISBN, page 437:

Sauveur stresses that the difference between the pure 5th (176 heptamerides) and the tempered 5th (175) is equal to 1: so the temperaments of all the other intervals will also be multiples of 1:

2008, Patrizio Barbieri, Enharmonic: Instruments and Music 1470-1900, →ISBN, page 378:

(music, obsolete) An interval of pitch equal to 1/7 of a meride, or 1/301 of an octave.


savart

(music, obsolete) An interval of pitch equal to 1/1000 of a decade, practically identical to a heptameride.


meride

(music, obsolete) An interval of pitch equal to 1/43 of an octave.


whammy bar

(music) A lever at the bridge or tailpiece of an electric guitar, used to add vibrato to the sound by changing the tension of the strings.


pandore

A kind of oyster found near Prestonpans on the Firth of Forth.


abeng

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole abeng, from Akan abɛŋ (“animal horn; wind instrument”) (Twi).

der

(Jamaica, music) An animal (usually bull) horn used by the Maroon people of Jamaica as a musical instrument; and also (historical) formerly by slaveholders to summon slaves to canefields and by the Maroon army to communicate cryptic messages over great distances.

abɛŋ

animal horn used by the Maroon people of Jamaica as a musical instrument, etc.


furniture music

Calque of French musique d’ameublement (literally “furnishing music”), coined by Erik Satie in 1917.

cal

Furniture music is thus more like a chair than a painting in a gallery. One sits in rather than contemplates the chair. So too furniture music: “it creates vibration; it has no other purpose; it fills the same role as light, warmth and comfort in all its forms.”

2018, John T. Lysaker, Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 84:

(music) Background music originally played by live performers.


crust punk

en-noun

crust punk (countable and uncountable, plural crust punks)

The term crust came from the band Hellbastard's 1986 Ripper Crust demo.

Coordinate term: hardcore punk

Crust: Also called crustcore or crust punk, an extreme version of hardcore punk that arose in Great Britain in the mid-1980s, featuring lyrics that espoused anarchist political or social beliefs shouted or growled over extremely fast metal guitar […]

2010, Sharon M. Hannon, Punks: A Guide to an American Subculture, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 162:

(uncountable) A subgenre of punk rock, derived from hardcore punk with extreme metal elements, often with pessimistic lyrics about political and social ills.


drumslade

From Middle Dutch trommelslach (“drumbeat”), from trommel (“drum”) + slach (“beat”) (modern Dutch slag).


choruser

From chorus (verb) + -er (agent noun suffix) or chorus (noun) + -er (occupational suffix).

suf

Someone who choruses, or sings in a chorus.


cyclic chorus

(historical) The chorus that performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle.


homorhythmically

(music) With the same rhythm throughout.


goomba

Alternative spelling of gumbe (“Jamaican drum”)


Tilley lamp

A kind of kerosene-powered lamp of the nineteenth century.


biphotochromic

(physical chemistry) Having two photochromic centres


fight song

A sports team's anthem, sung by fans to cheer the team.


superoctave

Succeeding superoctaves are pitches found at frequencies four, eight, sixteen times, and so on, of the fundamental frequency.

(music) A coupler in the organ by means of which is sounded an octave higher than the one struck.

(music) An organ stop two octaves above the principal.


cudbear

en-noun

cudbear (countable and uncountable, plural cudbears)

Corrupted from the name of Dr. Cuthbert Gordon, a Scotsman, who patented the process of manufacture.

ORCHELLA WEEDS. The cylindrical and flat species of Roccella used in the manufacture of Orchil or Archil, and Cudbear, are so called by the makers.

1878, Andrew Ure, Robert Hunt, Frederick William Rudler, Ure̓'s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition of Their Principles and Practice, volume 3:

Lecanora tartarea
Lecanora tartarea#Translingual

A violet-red powder, difficult to moisten with water, prepared from certain lichens, especially Ochrolechia tartarea (syn. Lecanora tartarea), and used for making violet or purple dye.


chemoelectrical

(physical chemistry, physics) Describing any process in which chemical energy is converted to electrical energy


sevdalinka

sevdalinka (countable and uncountable, plural sevdalinkas)

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian sevdalinka, a compound of Ottoman Turkish سودالی (sevdalı, “lover”) + -inka, the first element deriving from Arabic سَوْدَاء (sawdāʔ, “black [bile]; melancholy”) + Ottoman Turkish ـلی (-lı).

der

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina

(uncountable) A traditional genre of folk music from Bosnia and Herzegovina, also popular in the ex-Yugoslavia region.


troffer

Each fluorescent troffer in the room contained three lamps and two ballasts.

Flexibility for troffer systems may be planned in the original layout by coordinating the over-all ceiling pattern with the modular size of troffer.

1956, National Research Council, Design for environment: floor, ceilings, and service systems in multi-story buildings, page 36:

A rectangular, trough-shaped light fixture, typically for mounting in or on a ceiling to light the area below, and usually containing two or three fluorescent bulbs.


light fixture

A complete lighting unit, composed of a housing attached to a wall or ceiling, and a mount for a light source.


blondism

Blondism artificially produced in Micronesia and Melanesia as in Polynesia indicates a blond element in the last conquering immigration.

1927, John Macmillan Brown, Peoples & problems of the Pacific, volume 2, page 276:

In the beard latent blondism is likely to come out.

1931, Carleton Stevens Coon, Tribes of the Rif, page 348:

(anthropology) The presence of blond hair and relatively pale skin and eyes in a member of a usually darker race.


hypophrygian

/ˌhaɪpəʊˈfɹɪd͡ʒi.ən/

(music) Of or relating to a musical mode or diatonic scale in medieval chant theory, the fourth mode of church music and the plagal counterpart of the authentic third mode, or Phrygian.


hypophrygian

/ˌhaɪpəʊˈfɹɪd͡ʒi.ən/


terzet

His poem also consists of 50 terzets, after the model of Sarteano, and like his, it is clear but lacking in vigor.

1911, A. B. Rhine, “Secular Hebrew Poetry of Italy”, in The Jewish Quarterly Review, volume 1, page 353:

(music) A terzetto; a composition in three voice parts.


radioresponse

(physiology) The body's recovery/repair response, in the form of specific cytokines, to radiation damage


Phlegethon

/ˈflɛd͡ʒɪθɒn/

/ˈflɛd͡ʒɪθɑn/

From Latin Phlegethōn, from Ancient Greek Φλεγέθων (Phlegéthōn).

Firebrand of hell first tynd in Phlegeton, / By thousand furies, and from thence out throwen / Into this world, to worke confusion, / And set it all on fire by force vnknowen / Is wicked discord [...].

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

Consumed by the tongues ov fire / burning like Phlegethon / holy gardens reduced to ash

(Greek mythology) A river of fire in Hades.


contrabasso

en-noun

contrabasso (plural contrabassos or contrabassi)

contrabassos (plural)
contrabassi (plural)


Bird

When Bird played like that, it was like hearing music for the first time. I'd never heard anybody play like that. Later Sonny Rollins and I would try to do things like that, and me and Trane, those short, hard bursts of musical phrases. But when Bird played like that, he was outrageous…

2012, John Szwed, quoting Miles Davis, So What: The Life of Miles Davis, arrow books, →ISBN:

(jazz) Charlie Parker (1920–1955), Jazz saxophonist.


banjolin

A musical instrument, most often with four strings, resembling a small banjo but tuned like a mandolin.


mandolin-banjo

(music) A hybrid string instrument (chordophone), combining the membrane-soundboard body of a banjo and the neck of a mandolin or violin.


banjo-mandolin

(music) A four-stringed instrument with the body of a mandolin and the neck of a banjo.


manjo

(music, Ireland, informal) A mandolin-banjo


drill and bass

From drill (“tool for boring”) (typically producing a loud, harsh noise) and drum and bass.

The compositional applications of granulation run from stutters (tight repetitions at rhythmic or even pitched rates; think of Mantronix's Bassline (1985) or drill and bass), to disintegration and coalescence effects.

2010, Nicholas Collins, Nick Collins, Introduction to Computer Music, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 130:

What the Squarepusher-type drill and bass artists have responded to and exaggerated ad absurdum is only one aspect of jungle: the music's complexity.

2013, Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 374:

A style of electronic music with fast, loud percussion and harsh noises.


waveshaper

(music) An audio effect that performs waveshaping.


waveshaping

(music) A type of distortion synthesis in which complex spectra are produced from simple tones by altering the shape of the waveform.


bitpop

From bit + pop; see bit (“binary digit”) and pop music; and punning on Britpop.

(neologism) A genre of electronic music based on the sound chips of older (8-bit or 16-bit) computers, but often combined with modern equipment and vocals.


radiogenesis

The production of nuclides by radioactive decay.


krar

(music) A five-stringed, bowl-shaped lyre of Eritrea and Ethiopia.


begena

A type of lyre of Ethiopian and Eritrean origin with a rectangular soundbox and ten strings, which is played with a plectrum.


tropaeolin

tropaeolin (countable and uncountable, plural tropaeolins)

Any of several orange dyes of very complex composition: tropaeolin O (acid orange 6, chrysoine resorcinol), tropaeolin OO (acid orange 5), or tropaeolin OOO (acid orange 7).


supersaw

From super- + saw. Derived from the name of this sound as it was featured on the Roland JP-8000 synthesizer.

(music) A synthesized sound created by mixing several sawtooth waves, slightly detuned to one another.


Kanakangi

“Golden-bodied one”, from Sanskrit कनक (kanaka, “gold”) + Telugu అంగి (aṅgi, “bodied”).

(music) Name of a raga in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the first melakarta raga in the 72 melakarta raga system of Carnatic music.


B-flat

(music) The note one semitone below B, notated B♭.


Ratnangi

Meaning “gem-bodied one”, from Sanskrit रत्न (rátna, “gem”) + Telugu అంగి (aṅgi, “bodied”)

(music) A raga in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the second melakarta raga in the 72 melakarta raga system of Carnatic music.


Ganamurti

(music) Name of a rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 3rd Melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.


villancico

From Spanish villancico, from villano (“peasant”), from Medieval Latin vīllānus (“villager”).

The villancicos are strophic, but they tend not to extend to the many strophes of narration that were typical of the romance. A standard form for a villancico strophe is ABBA, in which the first A is called the estribillo (refrain), the Bs represent the statement of the music for the copla (stanza) twice (as copla and mudanza), and the return of the estribillo as the vuelta.

2014, James Haar, editor, European Music, 1520–1640, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 447:

(music, poetry) A traditional Spanish (or Portuguese) folk song with short stanzas and a refrain; now especially common as a Christmas carol.

gabon-kanta

traditional Spanish or Portuguese folk song


melakarta

(music) A collection of fundamental ragas (scales) in Carnatic music (South Indian classical music).


shadjam

(music) The first of the seven swaras, or primary musical notes.


limma

(music) Any of several small musical intervals, such as the semitone. Most commonly referrs to the diatonic semitone or minor second, which has a ratio of approximately 16/15 or 27/25 in meantone temperaments or 256/243 in Pythagorean tuning.


Vanaspati

Borrowed from Sanskrit वनस्पति (vanaspati).

(music) Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the fourth melakarta rāgam of the 72 melakarta rāgams of Carnatic music.


Hanumatodi

(music) name of a rāgam in Carnatic music, the eighth melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system


Manavati

(music) A rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the fifth melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.


Senavati

(music) A rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the seventh melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.


Tanarupi

(music) Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the sixth melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.


Dhenuka

(music) A rāgam (musical scale) in Carnatic music. It is the ninth melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.


Natakapriya

From Sanskrit नाटक (nāṭaka) + प्रिया (priyā).

(music) A rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the tenth melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system.


Kokilapriya

Borrowed from Telugu కోకిలప్రియ (kōkilapriya), from Sanskrit कोकिल (kokila) + प्रिया (priyā).

bor+

(music) Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the eleventh melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.


Rupavati

(music) Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the twelfth melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.


Gayakapriya

From Sanskrit गायक (gāyak) + प्रिया (priyā).

(music) Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the thirteenth melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.


Vakulabharanam

(music) A rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the fourteenth melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.


nuclear binding energy

en-noun

nuclear binding energy (plural nuclear binding energies)

(nuclear physics) The energy needed to split an atomic nucleus into its component parts; equivalently, the energy value of bringing all the nucleons together.

Kernbindungsenergie

the energy needed to cause the fission of an atomic nucleus into its component parts


electrical energy

Energy made available for consumption or consumed in the form of electricity or electric power; electricity.


Mayamalavagowla

(music) A raga of Carnatic music. It is classified as the 15th melakarta raga.


Chakravakam

Borrowed from Sanskrit चक्रवाक (cakravāka).

(music) A rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 16th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system.


Suryakantam

Borrowed from Sanskrit सूर्यकान्त (sūryakānta).

(music) A rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 17th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system.


Hatakambari

(music) Name of a rāga in Carnatic music. It is the eighteenth melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.


scathefire

From scathe + fire. Compare German Schadenfeuer (“fire damage”). See also scarefire.

A title so clear, as if it were “written with a beam of the sliny;” which no true Englishman in his right wits did ever yet oppose, but one or two foreign pensioners, maintained on purpose abroad to kindle scathfires at home, who gained nothing by the question but to render themselves ridiculous.

1845, John Bramhall, The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, John Bramhall:

Beneath their ruines: and these horrid sights / Lighted by scathe-fires, they that haue beheld […]

1874 (original 1611), Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood

Richard II, in 1385, and Henry VIII, in 1545, each wrecked it, and after this last scathe-fire it was rebuilt no more.

1901, Albert Le Roy Bartlett, A Golden Way:

You will give them my order to proceed to the scathefire track, with rangers you will find as guides, and parallel the Pargunese, ... The other will parallel the scathefire track until even with the Pargunese and stay even with them as they move.

2012, Elizabeth Moon, Echoes of Betrayal:

Any escaping villagers would be killed. She had heard of scathefires but fortunately her village had not been targeted.

How much more in extremities of more importance, as the quenching of a scathe fire, or defending of a city, or country, by repelling the invading or beleaguering enemy?

2014, Henry Burton, C. Matthew McMahon, Therese B. McMahon, The Law and the Gospel Reconciled:

(obsolete) Destructive flames; a conflagration.


leekish

en-adj

leekish (comparative more leekish, superlative most leekish)

more leekish (comparative)
most leekish (superlative)

Occasionally a church gleams white, its spire thin on a leekish onion of dark grey; and then a small town spreads itself as the trees fall away — [...]

1958, William Sansom, The icicle and the sun:

In describing garlic, Coghan contradicts other writers, for example Newton, who claims that it is a "grosse pothearb" that creates "naughty and corrupte iuyce," which in turn engenders a putrefying "leekish choler" in the body.

2009, Bianca Ryan-Lopez, Corruption and Infected Sin:

Resembling a leek, especially in colour.


neutron capture

(physics) A form of nuclear reaction in which one or more neutrons are absorbed by an atomic nucleus

neutronisieppaus

nuclear reaction in which neutrons are absorbed


Natabhairavi

* From Sanskrit नट (naṭa) + भैरवी (bhairavī)

(music) Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the 20th melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system.


Jhankaradhvani

Borrowed from Sanskrit झंकारध्वनि (jhaṃkāradhvani), from झंकार (jhaṃkāra) + ध्वनि (dhvani, “sound”).

compound

(Carnatic music) Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the 19th melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.


Keeravani

Borrowed from Sanskrit कीरवाणि (kīravāṇi, literally “parrot's voice”), from कीर (kīra) + वाणि (vāṇi).

compound

कीर (kīra) + वाणि (vāṇi)

(music) Name of a rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 21st melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.


Kharaharapriya

Borrowed from Sanskrit खरहरप्रिया (kharaharapriyā, literally “loved by the slayer of demon Khara”), from खर (khara) + हर (hara) + प्रिया (priyā).

bor+

(music) Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the 22nd melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system.


Gourimanohari

Transliteration of Sanskrit गौरीमनोहारी (gaurīmanohārī).

translit

(music) Name of a rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 23rd melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.


Varunapriya

Borrowed from Sanskrit वरुणप्रिया (varuṇapriyā), from वरुण (váruṇa) + प्रिया (priyā).

(music) A rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 24th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.


Mararanjani

From Sanskrit मार (māra) + रन्जनि (ranjani).

(music) A rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 25th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.


Charukesi

From Sanskrit चारु (cāru) + केशि (keśi).

(Carnatic music) The 26th melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.


Sarasangi

From Sanskrit सरस (sarasa) + Telugu అంగి (aṅgi).

(music) A rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 27th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.


Harikambhoji

From Sanskrit हरि (hari) + काम्बोज (kāmboja).

(music) Name of a rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 28th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system.


chuffle

en-verb

chuffle (third-person singular simple present chuffles, present participle chuffling, simple past and past participle chuffled)

chuffles (present singular third-person)
chuffling (participle present)
chuffled (participle past)
chuffled (past)

Onomatopoeic, but compare chuff (the sound of the exhaust of a steam engine) and -le (verbal suffix conveying frequentativity).

(intransitive, of a tiger or snow leopard) To produce prusten.


prusten

From the German verb prusten (“to sneeze, to snort”).

He made a sound, a snort from his nostrils. I pricked up my ears. He did it a second time. I was astonished. Prusten?

2001, Yann Martel, chapter 57, in Life of Pi, Canongate, published 2003, →ISBN, page 163:

Prusten is the quietest of tiger calls, a puff through the nose to express friendliness and harmless intentions.

A sound made by tigers and snow leopards without the intent to threaten, producing a breathy snort by blowing through the nostrils whilst the mouth is closed — a low-frequency equivalent of the purring found in domestic cats.


Dheerasankarabharanam

From Sanskrit धीर (dhīra) + शंकराभरण (śaṃkarābharaṇa).

(music) A rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 29th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.


sound post

(lutherie) A wooden rod located inside the body of a violin-family instrument, close to the treble-side bridge foot.


Naganandini

From Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “serpent, snake”) + नन्दिनी (nandinī).

(music) Name of a rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 30th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.


seraphine

(music) An early wind instrument with a keyboard, resembling a cross between a reed organ and an accordion, which makes its sound by the action of air being blown across metallic reeds.


isabella

Unknown. Anecdotally linked to Isabella I of Castile (1451–1504) or Isabella Clara Eugenia (1566–1633).
See discussion at Isabelline (colour).

If it be exposed to heat as soon as it is moderately warm, its dark olive colour changes almost suddenly to an Isabella colour, it becomes cloudy, and an abundant precipitate falls[…]

1864, Sir William Crookes, Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, volume 10, page 301:

A pale grey-yellow, fawn, cream-brown or parchment colour.

Isabella Clara Eugenia
Isabella I of Castile
Isabelline (colour)


black note

(music) Any of the notes (flats and sharps) produced by the black keys on a piano or similar keyed instrument.


white note

(music) Any of the notes (the naturals) produced by the white keys on a piano or similar keyed instrument.


aniline yellow

A yellow azo dye, 4-phenyldiazenylaniline


ganzá

Borrowed from Portuguese ganzá, from Kimbundu nganza (“gourd”).

percussion instrument
percussion instrument

A Brazilian cylindrical rattle used as a percussion instrument, especially in samba music.


proton capture

(nuclear physics) A nuclear reaction in which a proton is absorbed by a nucleus.


anthracosis

(pneumology, pathology) A relatively mild pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of coal.


fuel rod

Since it began operating in 1950, Sellafield has had different duties. First it manufactured plutonium for nuclear weapons. Then it generated electricity for the National Grid, until 2003. It also carried out years of fuel reprocessing: extracting uranium and plutonium from nuclear fuel rods after they’d ended their life cycles.

December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:

Over the years, the railway has been the safest way to move hazardous chemicals, radioactive waste, fuel for Royal Navy nuclear submarines and imported fuel for reprocessing, as well as flasks containing fuel rods to and from British power stations.

2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 21:

A long zirconium tube, filled with pellets of uranium oxide, stacked in bundles inside a nuclear reactor as fuel.


archetier

Yielding inexpensive means whereby his preternatural gifts could be awakened, puncheon strips were later put aside for that most desirable of all bow woods—pernambuco. It was about 1775 that fate ordained young Tourte to see what other archetiers had done, and then proceed to do it better.

1965, Music Journal - Volume 23, page 45:

Nowadays, the craft of the 'archetier', or bow maker, is entirely separated from that of the 'luthier', or instrument maker.

1999, Robin Stowell, The Cambridge Companion to the Cello, →ISBN, page 28:

The following are photographs of a few of the many ancient bows made by the contemporary master archetier Eitan Hoffer who operates a shop in Israel.

2015, Michael J. Pagliaro, The String Instrument Owner's Handbook, →ISBN, page 23:

(lutherie) One who builds, repairs, and restores the bows of instruments in the violin family.


bass clarinet

A bass instrument in the clarinet family.


oboe d'amore

en-noun

oboe d'amore (plural oboe d'amores or oboes d'amore or oboi d'amore)

oboe d'amores (plural)
oboes d'amore (plural)
oboi d'amore (plural)

/ˌəʊbəʊ daˈmɔːɹeɪ/

/ˌoʊboʊ dɑˈmɔɹeɪ/

Borrowed from Italian oboe d'amore (literally “oboe of love”).

bor

An instrument of the oboe family, pitched in A below middle C.


decachord

From Ancient Greek δεκάχορδος (dekákhordos, “ten-stringed”), from δέκα (déka, “ten”) + χορδή (khordḗ, “guts, string of a musical instrument”).

compound

Using the logic employed by many subset-based similarity measures, the chromatic trichord apparently has twice the affinity to this decachord as it does to the chromatic pentachord, despite the fact that the trichord could be seen as the progenitor of the pentachord but not of the decachord.

1999, George Eric Lasker, James Rhodes, Systems Research in the Arts, page 2:

The reduced span of the system either indicates that the system was devised for the octochord or the decachord, or for the octochord with different tunings, in respect of UET VII 74.

2005, Richard J. Dumbrill, The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East, page 100:

Two pentachords can be combined to create the decachord discussed by Carpenter.

2016, Andrew Kirkman, Alexander Ivashkin, Contemplating Shostakovich, page 22:

With a slightly different line of reasoning, yet reaching a similar conclusion, Guy d'Eu, the monk who was put in charge of the Cistercians' chant reform in the twelfth century, explained the expansion of the octave, or diapason, into the decachord.

2016, Nigel Hiscock, The Symbol at Your Door:

(music) A set of ten pitches used to create a musical mode.


grindie

The whole 'grindie' thing is just bollocks. I hate labelling music. They make up names and throw it to anything.

2006, Hip-hop connection, numbers 208-209, page 14:

He is known for MCing in grime music, and is also associated with the grindie scene which combines influences from grime, with indie rock.

2008, Damien Morgan, Hip Hop Had a Dream, volume 1, page 345:

Dizzee […] went on to make 'Temptation', creating the first grime-indie track, or 'grindie' as Dizzee calls it[…]

2011, Alex Kitts, Dizzee Rascal: Tales from Da Corner:

A style of music that fuses indie and grime music.


flautando

en-adv

flautando (comparative more flautando, superlative most flautando)

more flautando (comparative)
most flautando (superlative)


French grey

The door was French grey outside with raised metal lettering, as clean and sharp as a new knife.

1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 130:

French grey:


Saunders blue

Corrupted from French cendres bleues, blue ashes.

A pigment prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine.


ASMR

en-noun

ASMR (countable and uncountable, plural ASMRs)

(countable, seismology) Initialism of accelerating seismic moment release.


illuminating gas

Any of several types of flammable gas produced and distributed commercially, especially when used for gaslight; coal gas, water gas, and natural gas have all been sold as illuminating gas or town gas.


street musician

street musician (plural street musicians)

A musician who performs in a public place, often for money.


electron capture

electron capture (plural electron captures)

(physics) A nuclear reaction in which an electron (either free, or from the shell of the atom itself) is absorbed into a nucleus, a proton being converted into a neutron in the process


clavioline

An electronic musical instrument with a keyboard and a separate amplifier and speaker unit, a forerunner to the analog synthesizer.


funeral march

(music) A slow march in a "simple duple" meter, often played at funerals.


acoustic mirror

acoustic mirror (plural acoustic mirrors)

A passive device for reflecting and often focusing sound waves, chiefly used to provide early warning of incoming aircraft (by detecting the sound of their engines).


claybank

I took Señorita Anabela for a walk in the lemon grove while Fergus, disfiguring himself with an ugly frown, was waltzing with the claybank girl.

1909 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “‘Next to Reading Matter’”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 82:


buckwheat coal

buckwheat coal (usually uncountable, plural buckwheat coals)


coke breeze

The cook-house was like a cathedral's nave, aisles being divided off by the pipes of stoves. The floor was of coke-brise, shining under french polish and turpentine.

1930, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades, Grosset & Dunlap, page 308:

A building material composed of cement and breeze; low-grade concrete.


astatate

(inorganic chemistry) The anion AtO₃⁻; any salt containing this anion.


astatide

(inorganic chemistry) A binary compound of astatine and another element.


perastatate

(inorganic chemistry) The anion AtO₄⁻; any salt containing this anion


danzón

He draws from modernism and its malcontents: Morton Feldman, Olivier Messaien, Thelonious Monk. He pulls heavily from Cuban folk traditions: Changüi, Abakuá, danzón.

2022 November 30, Giovanni Russonello, “Best Jazz Albums of 2022”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

She leads the Ballet Theater orchestra throughout the run and lends vivid delicacy to the cinematic music, which incorporates traditional instruments and forms like danzón.

2023 June 23, Gia Kourlas, “Review: In ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ Plot Overtakes Ballet”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(music) A Latin-American musical genre originating from Cuba, evolved from contradanza.


ecomusicology

ecomusicology (usually uncountable, plural ecomusicologies)

(music) The study of music, culture, and nature, related to ecology and the natural environment. A mixture of the fields of ecocriticism and musicology.


dice coal

Rhomboidal coal (commonly called dice coal), in contradistinction to coals which do not break in rhombs.

1804, James Sowerby, British Mineralogy:

(dated) A kind of coal that easily splits into cubical fragments.


mizmar

(music) A traditional Arabic wind instrument with a double or single reed.


netback

netback (countable and uncountable, plural netbacks)

From net + back. The term was widely adopted by the oil industry in the second half of 1985.

(oil industry) Revenues received from the sale of oil or gas on spot market minus the costs of extraction, processing and transportation.


overscore

en-verb

overscore (third-person singular simple present overscores, present participle overscoring, simple past and past participle overscored)

overscores (present singular third-person)
overscoring (participle present)
overscored (participle past)
overscored (past)

(transitive, intransitive, music) To score (a piece of music) for too many instruments.


zygonic

Introduced by Adam Ockelford, from Ancient Greek ζυγός (zugós, “yoke”) + -ic.

The following account of the first movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata K.333, which focuses largely on the opening bars, is intended to demonstrate zygonic theory in action in a music-analytical context.

2005, Adam Ockelford, Repetition in music: theoretical and metatheoretical perspectives, page 35:

Half arrowheads are indicative of difference and are used in a zygonic context to show approximate imitation.

2006, Neil Lerner, Joseph Straus, Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music, page 143:

This research showed that a zygonic approach could provide an intuitively persuasive metric for the fluctuating patterns of musical influence as they unfolded, event by event.

2012, Raymond MacDonald, Gunter Kreutz, Laura Mitchell, Music, Health, and Wellbeing, page 290:

(music) Of or relating to the theory that imitation is the ultimate organising force in music.


rhythmicon

(music) An early transposable keyboard instrument capable of playing notes in periodic rhythms proportional to the overtone series of a chosen fundamental pitch.


pentuplet

Synonym of quintet: A group of five, particularly musicians.


set alight

set alight (third-person singular simple present sets alight, present participle setting alight, simple past and past participle set alight)

sets alight (present singular third-person)
setting alight (participle present)
set alight (participle past)
set alight (past)


antisun

en-noun

antisun (countable and uncountable, plural antisuns)


ghettotech

The second album features a 38-track mix featuring many of the "booty" or "ghettotech" anthems produced by the popular Detroit duo.

2001, Vladimir Bogdanov, All Music Guide to Electronica:

The club benefits from crowd-pleasing regular appearances from the Party and the occasional drop-in from ghettotech MC Prince William.

2008 January, SPIN, volume 24, number 1, page 110:

Ghettotech consists largely of four-on-the-floor dance beats at a faster tempo with lyrics that are sexually explicit and derogatory in nature.

2010, Emmett George Price, Encyclopedia of African American Music, volume 3, page 942:

electronic dance music
electronic dance music

(music) A form of electronic dance music from Chicago, combining elements of house music with electro, hip-hop, and techno.


math rock

Math rock albums have been colored by many other influences, ranging from world music to avant-garde jazz.

2013, Kevin Holm-Hudson, Progressive Rock Reconsidered, Routledge, →ISBN, page 257:

A rhythmically complex, often guitar-based style of experimental rock music that emerged in the late 1990s.


moonbase

Matahka entered the intersection of the moonbase's basic "T" design. With the gym behind him, he glanced to his right down the first hallway that led to the main entrance. The old dorm pods were now used as offices.

2010, Brian Willshire, Moonbase Eden, page 14:

(originally science fiction) A base or outpost located on a moon.


mgqashiyo

Recorded in the late '70s, with tough mgqashiyo mbaqanga out of favor among cultural as well as assimilationist blacks, this proves Mahlathini's staunch loyalty to the style he originated, his total lack of alternatives, or both.

1990, Robert Christgau, Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s, page 257:

[…] an orgy of dance and mgqashiyo, which, literally translated, means "the beat that will never die."

As a producer and the saxophonist for the band Makgona Tsohle, he shaped the style called sax jive and then the music that grew out of it, called mbaqanga (named after a homemade stew) or mgqashiyo, "the indestructible beat."

1998, The New York Times Biographical Service, volume 29, page 1649:

A genre of African music, a more danceable style of mbaqanga.


mridang

Alternative form of mridangam (Indian drum)


pakhavaj

/pəˈkɑːwʌdʒ/

We are all season clappers and along with the pakhawaj, we give the beat.

1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 181:

(music) An Indian barrel-shaped, two-headed drum, a variant and descendant of the mridang.


Kagutsuchi

Borrowed from Japanese 迦具土 (かぐつち, Kagutsuchi), originally a compound of かぐ (kagu, obsolete verb root meaning “to shine, to sparkle”) + つ (tsu, Old Japanese possessive particle) + ち (chi, “power, life force”).

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese god of fire, son of Izanagi and Izanami and brother of Amaterasu, Susanoo, Tsukuyomi and Ōyamatsumi; he burned his mother to death while being born.


blike

en-verb

blike (third-person singular simple present blikes, present participle bliking, simple past bliked or bloke, past participle bliked or blicken)

blikes (present singular third-person)
bliking (participle present)
bliked (past)
bloke (past)
bliked (participle past)
blicken (participle past)

From Middle English bliken, from Old English blīcan (“to shine, glitter, dazzle, sparkle, twinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *blīkaną (“to gleam, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”). Compare blick.

inh

(intransitive, obsolete) To shine; gleam.


zeloso

Borrowed from Italian zeloso, from zelo.

Because Steve's attitude had always been co-operative and zeloso, Mr. Brisk had appointed him part leader for the bassi.

1973, Clavier: A Magazine for Pianists & Organists, Volume 12, Instrumentalist Company, page 35:

(music, of play) Zealous, energetic, enthusiastic; typically an annotation to direct the style of play.


zeloso

(music) (Played) zealously, energetically, with enthusiasm.


trancecore

Blend of trance + hardcore, or trance + -core.

A music genre combining elements of trance music and metalcore.


illbient

Blend of ill + ambient; coinage attributed to DJ Olive (Gregor Asch). See hip-hop slang sense of ill.

This describes the sound of what is known as illbient, a genre of electronic music that arose in New York in the mid-1990s. The first illbient compilations were released by the Asphodel label—Crooklyn Dub Consortium Vol. 1 in 1995 and Incursions in Illbient in 1996—and Olive was involved with both projects.

2012, Mark Katz, Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

(music) A music genre with layered soundscapes, dub and hip-hop influences (including the use of samples), and a progressive approach to beat programming.


well-tempered

(music) Having twelve notes per octave of the standard instrument tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and the resulting sound will not sound perceptibly too far out of tune.


wedding march

"Oh, there isn't much danger, as long as I have got breath in my nostrils," said Peik, and took a ram's horn, which he began blowing; and when he had blown a wedding march on it he put the horn to his sister's nostrils and blew life into her again and she rose up as if nothing had been the matter with her.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 197:

The musicians had been quietly singing some familiar Christian songs but then the singing stopped and the music turned into a wedding march as the procession started down the small hallway. First, Sandra, in her yellow bridesmaid dress and carrying a small bouquet of yellow roses […]

2009, Jim Hayden, The Year of God's Promise, page 325:

(music) A slow-tempo march played during a wedding.


megawatt-hour

A unit of energy, especially of electrical energy, equal to that done by one megawatt acting for one hour (abbreviation: MWh).


rubab

A traditional lute-like musical instrument of Central Asia.


bianqing

/biˌænˈt͡ʃɪŋ/

/ˌbjænˈt͡ʃɪŋ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 編磬／编磬 (biānqìng).

A group of bronzes of the late Western Chou were uncovered in Chingshan County, Hupeh Province, and 25 pieces of stone ching (musical chimes) with a painted design of the State of Chu were found in Chiangling County of the same province.

[1971, “Historical Relic Unearthed During the Cultural Revolution”, in Eastern Horizon, volume X, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26, column 2:

A set of qings, or sounding stones, used in Chinese music.


secundal

(music) Relating to seconds (intervals between pairs of adjacent notes in a diatonic scale).


UST

en-noun

UST (countable and uncountable, plural USTs)

Coordinate term: OST

(music) Acronym of unofficial soundtrack.


erminois

(heraldry) In blazon, ermine with a field or instead of argent (gold with black spots).

guldhermelin

of gold colour with black spots on a coat of arms


svirel

(music) An old folk Russian wind instrument of the end-blown flute type.


fakebit

From fake + bit, alliterative with 8-bit.

A style of electronic music that uses modern software synthesizers to simulate the sound of early 8-bit computers.


argaman

/ˈɑː(ɹ)ɡəmən/

Borrowed from Hebrew אַרְגָּמָן (argaman, “purple, crimson”), from Akkadian 𒅈𒂵𒌋𒌋𒉡 (argamannu, “red-purple”).

der

This purple light of Venus-Sophia-Lucifer was symbolized with purple colour. And this is where argaman purple was needed exclusively: as most crucial part of anointment oil mixture.

2012, Mika Virpiranta, Sun Cults versus Thunder Cults:

(historical) A particular purple dye or color.


zarbi

(Persian, music) A rhythmic realization of a gushe.


volti subito

Borrowed from Italian volti subito (literally “turn quickly”).

bor

(music) A direction to turn the page quickly.


garmon

From Russian гармо́нь (garmónʹ), cognate to English harmonica.

A kind of smaller Russian button accordion.


water organ

(music) A form of pipe organ in which the air is generated by moving water.


tritave

(music) An interval with a frequency ratio of 3:1, usually in the context of the Bohlen–Pierce scale where it replaces the octave.


pseudo-octave

(music) An interval whose frequency ratio is not 2:1 (that of the octave), but is perceived or treated as equivalent to this ratio, and whose pitches are considered equivalent to each other as with octave equivalency.


click track

(music) A series of audio cues used to synchronize sound recordings, sometimes to a moving image.


Burzumesque

en-adj

Burzumesque (comparative more Burzumesque, superlative most Burzumesque)

more Burzumesque (comparative)
most Burzumesque (superlative)

Burzum + -esque, after the band Burzum, named for the Black Speech word burzum (“darkness”), from J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional language.

But if, like me, you think the Mayhemesque 'Under A Funeral Moon' and Burzumesque 'Transilvanian Hunger' are Darkthrone's finest moments […]

1997, Richard Stuart, “Review of Isvind - 'Dark Waters Stir'”, in alt.rock-n-roll.metal.death (Usenet):

Two of the old ones are slow and atmospheric (one is pure acoustic "ballad", other is truly amazing burzumesque piece) […]

1998, ghaa...@geocities.com, “HELP ME WITH THESE BANDS.......”, in alt.music.black-metal (Usenet):

They used to play Burzumesque BM, but moved on to a Doomy sound.

2000, NivendE, “black doom hybrids”, in alt.music.black-metal (Usenet):

(music) similar in style to the black metal band Burzum


sabar

A traditional drum from Senegal, generally played with one hand and one stick.


firenado

en-noun

firenado (plural firenados or firenadoes)

A fire whirl (a whirling column of fire found in large fiery areas such as wildfires, similar in appearance to a tornado made out of fire).


accidental chord

accidental chord (plural accidental chords)

(music) A chord containing one or more tones foreign to its proper harmony.


danzonete

danzonete (countable and uncountable, plural danzonetes)

A Latin-American musical genre originating from the Cuban danzón but incorporating vocal parts.


fuel oil

fuel oil (usually uncountable, plural fuel oils)

Specifically, the heaviest commercial fuel that can be obtained from crude oil.


nyao

From the Japanese onomatopoeia にゃお (nyao, “meow, miaow”).

Scorpion's body dropped to the ground as Felicia turned back into a cat. With a barely audible "nyao," she then began to lick and clean herself off.

1994 December 13, Mark Maestas, “Dream Tournament 3: Round 1 Results, Part 2”, in rec.games.video.arcade (Usenet):

Luna looked at me with a very skeptical face, "Nyao?!"
It must have been a cat's way of saying, 'You've got to be kidding!'

1997 August 16, Terra, “[XOver] [FanFic] Star98 - Episode 2: The Lost Senshi”, in rec.arts.anime.fandom (Usenet):

I'd Be The Family Kitty Cat! Nyao! Heehee! :::lies down on a rug and purrs:::

2001 March 25, Aylakitty [username], “Re: If AFD was a family...”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet):

(chiefly anime and manga fandom) The cry of a cat.


anerithmon gelasma

Ancient Greek ἀνήριθμον γέλασμα (anḗrithmon gélasma), from Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound (90).

uder

ἀνήριθμον γέλασμα

With a stomach half full and a cerebrum hollow
As the tortoise-shell ere it was strung for Apollo,
Under contract to raise anerithmon gelasma
With rhymes so hard hunted they gasp with the asthma,

...give us the placid grinning kings, twanging their jolly bows over the rident horses, wounding those good-humored enemies, who tumble gayly off the towers, or drown, smiling, in the dimpling waters, amidst the anerithmon gelasma of the fish.

1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, Quarterly Review:

On one side lies the Indian Ocean, illimitable towrds the east, dimpled with its "anerithmon gelasama," and broken westward by a thin line of foam, creaming upon the whitest and finest of sand, the detritus of coralline and madrepore.

1859, Richard F. Burton, The Lake Regions of Central Africa, →ISBN:

(poetic) Uncountable laughter, said of ocean waves sparkling in sunlight.


dead march

I see a sad procession,
And I hear the sound of coming full-key'd bugles,
All the channels of the city streets they're flooding,
As with voices and with tears.
. . .
Now nearer blow the bugles,
And the drums strike more convulsive,
And the daylight o'er the pavement quite has faded,
And the strong dead-march enwraps me.

1892, Walt Whitman, “Dirge for Two Veterans”, in Leaves of Grass:

A captain's guard marched before the corpse, the captain of it in the rear, the firelocks reversed, the drums beating the dead march.

1859, Washington Irving, chapter 15, in Life of George Washington:

Lord Cramer . . . described the burying of his company's colonel after it—the open grave in a cleft of hills dark with pines, the solemn dead march, the noble words spoken as they left their leader forever.

1914, Amelia E. Barr, chapter 2, in Playing With Fire:

At the end, the orchestra played a somber dead march that was punctuated by harsh, chilling blows on the timpani.

1983 November 22, Donal Henahan, “Musica: Sacra at Fisher Hall”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-09-10:

(music) A mournful, deliberately-paced musical work suitable for a funeral or remembrance ceremony.


speed garage

A faster variant of UK garage music, with warped basslines influenced by jungle and reggae.


UK funky

A genre of electronic dance music derived from UK garage, afrobeat, and other genres.


UK garage

(music) A genre of electronic music descended from house music, originating from England in the early 1990s, typically featuring a syncopated 4/4 percussive rhythm with "shuffling" hi-hats and beat-skipping kick drums.


Lindmania

enthusiasm for Jenny Lind (Johanna Maria Lind, 1820–1887), Swedish opera singer


Thatter

As the diehards pitted themselves against the public for precious seats, one Thatter warmly congratulates another on scoring tickets for the Wembley show, adding: “And congrats on becoming a grandmother too!”

2010 November 3, Helen Brown, “Take That: still adored, a million love songs later”, in The Telegraph:

They greet visitors to the website by saying Take That Appreciation Pages has been running since 1st April 1996, and is dedicated to Thatters all over the world!

2011, James MacCarthey, Take That: Uncensored On The Record, Coda Books, →ISBN:

Me and my friend, a fellow Thatter from the back in the day, had tickets for the opening night of Take That’s spectacular Progress Tour over the summer, at the Stadium of Light.

2011 December 31, Diane Bourne, “Girls' weekend in County Durham”, in Manchester Evening News:

(slang) A fan of Take That, an English boy band popular in the 1990s.


taarab

Borrowed from Swahili taarab, from Arabic طَرَب (ṭarab, “entertainment with music”).

der

A genre of music popular in Tanzania and Kenya, influenced by the music of cultures with a historical presence in East Africa.


metally

en-adj

metally (comparative more metally, superlative most metally)

more metally (comparative)
most metally (superlative)


gekker

Spelling variant of gecker, originating at the latest by 1972.


gekker

en-verb

gekker (third-person singular simple present gekkers, present participle gekkering, simple past and past participle gekkered)

gekkers (present singular third-person)
gekkering (participle present)
gekkered (participle past)
gekkered (past)

(specifically of foxes) To make a series of stuttering throaty vocalizations when encountering a rival.


Take Thatter

Take Thatters Mark Owen and Gary Barlow - who provide the movie's theme tune Rule The World - were joined by David Walliams, Jonathan Ross, Jason Flemyng and Vinnie Jones.

2007 July 31, “UK boys shine at premiere”, in The Mirror, UK:

And when it rains it pours for Robbie, who spells out his dinner disaster. The former Take Thatter groans: "I had a prawn incident. I had stuff coming out of my mouth and everywhere else in my body."

2007 August 4, “Robbie's cracked”, in The Mirror, UK:

When the four remaining Take Thatters, sans Robbie, decided to give it a go again, no one had any idea what the public's reaction might be.

2010, Emily Herbert, Stephen Gately and Boyzone - Blood Brothers 1976-2009, John Blake Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:

(slang) A member of the English boy band Take That.


Purex

Shortening of plutonium uranium extraction.

A chemical method used to purify fuel for nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons, based on liquid–liquid extraction ion-exchange.


Kajin

Borrowed from Japanese 火神 (かじん, Kajin, literally “fire god”).

bor

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) Kagutsuchi, the Japanese god of fire.


rraup

Vervet monkeys have several different sorts of call, including "leopard alarm barks," "eagle rraups," and "snake chutters" (Struhsaker, 1967).

1985, Alison Jolly, The Evolution of Primate Behavior, page 75:

The vervet's main claim to fame, however, lies in its alarm calls, in which it distinguishes between different types of predator: a chutter warns of the presence of a snake; a rraup is uttered when an eagle is spotted; a chirp is used for lions[…]

1995, Stanisław Puppel, The Biology of Language, page 3:

An alarm call used by vervets to warn of the presence of an eagle.


chutter

An alarm call used by vervets to warn of the presence of a snake.


brown note

A hypothetical sound frequency that would cause a person to lose control of their bowels.


gothabilly

en-noun

gothabilly (countable and uncountable, plural gothabillies)

(music, uncountable) A musical genre combining rockabilly and gothic rock, and its associated subculture (style of clothing, etc).