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Flourish :: Flourish (n.) A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare..

Melop/ia :: Melop/ia (n.) The art of forming melody; melody; -- now often used for a melodic passage, rather than a complete melody..

Lade :: Lade (n.) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.

Tardo :: Tardo (a.) Slow; -- a direction to perform a passage slowly.

Bis :: Bis (adv.) Twice; -- a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts..

Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage..

Open :: Open (a.) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure, as in uttering s..

Windpipe :: Windpipe (n.) The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.

Sermon :: Sermon (n.) Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture..

Port :: Port (n.) A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam, water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder of a steam engine; an opening in a valve seat, or valve face..

Notch :: Notch (n.) A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain..

Upbreak :: Upbreak (v. i.) To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.

Transaudient :: Transaudient (a.) Permitting the passage of sound.

Citation :: Citation (n.) The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation..

Passage :: Passage (v. i.) Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage..

Interlineation :: Interlineation (n.) That which is interlined; a passage, word, or line inserted between lines already written or printed..

Render :: Render (v. i.) To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely; also, to yield or give way..

Cough :: Cough (v. t.) To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm..

Piano :: Piano (a. & adv.) Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.).

Refraction :: Refraction (n.) The change in the direction of a ray of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth's atmosphere; -- hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astronomical refraction..

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