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Clarichord :: Clarichord (n.) A musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet; -- called also manichord and clavichord..

Manichordon :: Manichordon () The clavichord or clarichord; -- called also dumb spinet.

Spinetail :: Spinetail (n.) Any one or several species of swifts of the genus Acanthylis, or Chaetura, and allied genera, in which the shafts of the tail feathers terminate in rigid spines..

Spine-tailed :: Spinetail (n.) The ruddy duck.

Spinetail :: Spinetail (n.) Any one of several species of South American and Central American clamatorial birds belonging to Synallaxis and allied genera of the family Dendrocolaptidae. They are allied to the ovenbirds.

Spinet :: Spinet (n.) A keyed instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller, with one string of brass or steel wire to each note, sounded by means of leather or quill plectrums or jacks. It was formerly much used..

Spinetail :: Spinet (n.) A spinny.

Spiniferous :: Spineted (a.) Slit; cleft.

Virginal :: Virginal (n.) An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals..

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