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Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison..

Stone :: Stone (n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: .

Stop :: Stop (n.) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated..

Second :: Second (n.) The interval between any tone and the tone which is represented on the degree of the staff next above it.

Stoneroot :: Stoner (n.) One who walls with stones.

Parget :: Parget (n.) Gypsum or plaster stone.

Bottone :: Bottone (a.) Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons..

Sharp :: Sharp (n.) A sharp tone or note.

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..

Graining :: Graining (n.) Painting or staining, in imitation of the grain of wood, atone, etc..

Assoil :: Assoil (v. t.) To expiate; to atone for.

Stone-blind :: Stonebird (n.) The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2..

Touch-needle :: Touch-needle (n.) A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone..

Jewel :: Jewel (n.) A precious stone; a gem.

Magnetic :: Magnetic (n.) Any metal, as iron, nickel, cobalt, etc., which may receive, by any means, the properties of the loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian..

Bawn :: Bawn (n.) An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure..

Riprap :: Riprap (n.) A foundation or sustaining wall of stones thrown together without order, as in deep water or on a soft bottom..

Bass :: Bass (a.) A bass, or deep, sound or tone..

Bloodstone :: Bloodstone (n.) Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or streak..

Cantoned :: Cantoned (a.) Having a charge in each of the four corners; -- said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself..

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