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Contrabass :: Contrabass (n.) Double bass; -- applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the contrabass tuba or bombardon..

Barfish :: Barfish (n.) Same as Calico bass.

Excellency :: Excellency (n.) A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes..

Inversion :: Inversion (n.) Said of a chord, when one of its notes, other than its root, is made the bass..

Ambassage :: Ambassage (n.) Same as Embassage.

Recall :: Recall (v. t.) To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador..

Bassorin :: Bassorin (n.) A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses..

Lamplighter :: Lamplighter (n.) The calico bass.

Bassaw :: Bassaw (n.) See Bashaw.

Continuo :: Continuo (n.) Basso continuo, or continued bass..

Ambassadorial :: Ambassadorial (a.) Of or pertaining to an ambassador.

Bassoon :: Bassoon (n.) A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc..

Accompaniment :: Accompaniment (n.) A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass..

Bombardon :: Bombardon (n.) Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide..

Embassy :: Embassy (n.) The person or persons sent as ambassadors or envoys; the ambassador and his suite; envoys.

Sacalait :: Sacalait (n.) A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie.

Rock :: Rock (n.) The striped bass. See under Bass.

Dash :: Dash (n.) The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone..

Barse :: Barse (n.) The common perch. See 1st Bass.

Drone :: Drone (v. i.) A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition..

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