Definition of tone

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Tone (n.) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone..

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Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A military engine used in the Middle Ages for throwing stones, etc. It acted by means of a great weight fastened to the short arm of a lever, which, being let fall, raised the end of the long arm with great velocity, hurling stones with much force..
Holystone :: Holystone (n.) A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships.
Dictatorial :: Dictatorial (a.) Characteristic of a dictator; imperious; dogmatical; overbearing; as, a dictatorial tone or manner..
#NAME? :: -lite () Combining forms fr. Gr. li`qos a stone; -- used chiefly in naming minerals and rocks.
Bloodstone :: Bloodstone (n.) A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope..
Rough :: Rough (n.) Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth..
Cofferwork :: Cofferwork (n.) Rubblework faced with stone.
Cinnamone :: Cinnamone (n.) A yellow crystalline substance, (C6H5.C2H2)2CO, the ketone of cinnamic acid..
Kerbstone :: Kerbstone (n.) See Curbstone.
Metal :: Metal (n.) The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.
Serum :: Serum (n.) A thin watery fluid, containing more or less albumin, secreted by the serous membranes of the body, such as the pericardium and peritoneum..
Atone :: Atone (v. t.) To unite in making.
Mesovarium :: Mesovarium (n.) The fold of peritoneum connecting the ovary with the wall of the abdominal cavity.
Kabook :: Kabook (n.) A clay ironstone found in Ceylon.
Level :: Level (a.) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection.
Oxytonical :: Oxytonical (a.) Oxytone.
Jackstone :: Jackstone (n.) A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck.
Pick :: Pick (n.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones..
Chromolithograph :: Chromolithograph (n.) A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.
Greenstone :: Greenstone (n.) A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc..
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