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Definition of trumpet

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Trumpet (n.) A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone..

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Trumpeter :: Trumpeter (n.) Any one of several species of long-legged South American birds of the genus Psophia, especially P. crepitans, which is abundant, and often domesticated and kept with other poultry by the natives. They are allied to the cranes. So called from their loud cry. Called also agami, and yakamik..

Blowess :: Blowess (n.) A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet.

Trumpetweed :: Trumpetweed (n.) The sea trumpet.

Slide :: Slide (n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.

Grayfly :: Grayfly (n.) The trumpet fly.

Tuba :: Tuba (n.) An ancient trumpet.

Yakamilk :: Yakamilk (n.) See Trumpeter, 3 (a)..

Strumpet :: Strumpet (v. t.) To debauch.

Harlotry :: Harlotry (n.) A harlot; a strumpet; a baggage.

Fanfare :: Fanfare (n.) A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase..

Band :: Band (v. t.) A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals..

Agami :: Agami (n.) A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter..

Sonifer :: Sonifer (n.) A kind of ear trumpet for the deaf, or the partially deaf..

Kerana :: Kerana (n.) A kind of long trumpet, used among the Persians..

Cornet-a-piston :: Cornet-a-piston (n.) A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet..

Triton :: Triton (n.) A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell..

Trumpeter :: Trumpeter (n.) One who sounds a trumpet.

Drab :: Drab (n.) A lewd wench; a strumpet.

Strumpet :: Strumpet (a.) Of or pertaining to a strumpet; characteristic of a strumpet.

Trump :: Trump (n.) A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; -- used chiefly in Scripture and poetry..