Definition of tone

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Tone (n.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion..

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Astroite :: Astroite (n.) A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone.
Wreckfish :: Wreckfish (n.) A stone bass.
Granulite :: Granulite (n.) A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite..
Stone :: Stone (n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
Oboe :: Oboe (n.) One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy..
Root :: Root (n.) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed..
Tone :: Tone (n.) Tonicity; as, arterial tone..
Trumpet :: Trumpet (v. i.) To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry..
Metal :: Metal (n.) The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.
Relative :: Relative (a.) Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other..
Tierce :: Tierce (n.) The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.
Hydroperitoneum :: Hydroperitoneum (n.) Same as Ascites.
Subduement :: Subdued (a.) Not glaring in color; soft in tone.
Mussitation :: Mussitation (n.) A speaking in a low tone; mumbling.
Muschelkalk :: Muschelkalk (n.) A kind of shell limestone, whose strata form the middle one of the three divisions of the Triassic formation in Germany. See Chart, under Geology..
Perrier :: Perrier (n.) A short mortar used formerly for throwing stone shot.
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..
Acrolith :: Acrolith (n.) A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood..
Cystolithic :: Cystolithic (a.) Relating to stone in the bladder.
Lapideous :: Lapideous (a.) Of the nature of stone.
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