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Reed :: Reed (n.) A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube..

Sea Bass :: Sea bass () A large marine food fish (Serranus, / Centropristis, atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch..

Growler :: Growler (n.) The large-mouthed black bass.

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

Theorbo :: Theorbo (n.) An instrument made like large lute, but having two necks, with two sets of pegs, the lower set holding the strings governed by frets, while to the upper set were attached the long bass strings used as open notes..

Bass :: Bass (n.) A hassock or thick mat.

Bast :: Bast (n.) A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2..

Basswood :: Basswood (n.) The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree..

Redeye :: Redeye (n.) The goggle-eye, or fresh-water rock bass..

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

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

Embassadress :: Embassadress (n.) Same as Ambassadress.

Black Bass :: Black bass () An edible, fresh-water fish of the United States, of the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei; the large-mouthed is M. salmoides..

Sea Trout :: Sea trout () A California sciaenoid fish (Cynoscion nobilis); -- called also white sea bass.

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

Kabassou :: Kabassou (n.) See Cabassou.

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..

Baritone :: Baritone (n.) A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other..

Basset :: Basset (n.) A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice..

Passacaglio :: Passacaglio (n.) An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne..

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