Definition of tonic

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Tonic (n.) The key tone, or first tone of any scale..

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Hydrastine :: Hydrastine (n.) An alkaloid, found in the rootstock of the golden seal (Hydrastis Canadensis), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance. It is used as a tonic and febrifuge..
Enharmonical :: Enharmonical (a.) Pertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which recognizes all the notes and intervals that result from the exact tuning of diatonic scales and their transposition into other keys.
Spastic :: Spastic (a.) Of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining to tonic spasm; tetanic..
Yellowwort :: Yellowwort (n.) A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow..
Tectonics :: Tectonics (n.) The science, or the art, by which implements, vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably to the end for which they are designed, and in conformity with artistic sentiments and ideas..
Atonic :: Atonic (a.) Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy; as, an atonic disease..
Bracer :: Bracer (n.) A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body..
Tonic :: Tonic (a.) Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation..
Panteutonic :: Panteutonic (a.) Of or pertaining to all the Teutonic races.
Supertragical :: Supertonic (n.) The note next above the keynote; the second of the scale.
Fourth :: Fourth (n.) The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key..
Ketonic :: Ketonic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, a ketone; as, a ketonic acid..
Plutonian :: Plutonian (a.) Plutonic.
Platonical :: Platonical (a.) Of or pertaining to Plato, or his philosophy, school, or opinions..
Betony :: Betony (n.) A plant of the genus Betonica (Linn.).
Saxon :: Saxon (n.) One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries..
Tone :: Tone (n.) Tonicity; as, arterial tone..
Subsensible :: Subsemitone (n.) The sensible or leading note, or sharp seventh, of any key; subtonic..
Tonic :: Tonic (n.) The key tone, or first tone of any scale..
Oxytonical :: Oxytonical (a.) Oxytone.
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