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Second :: Second (n.) The second part in a concerted piece; -- often popularly applied to the alto.

Trombone :: Trombone (n.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whos

Contralto :: Contralto (n.) The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor.

Altogether :: Altogether (adv.) All together; conjointly.

Mezzo-soprano :: Mezzo-soprano (a.) Having a medium compass between the soprano and contralto; -- said of the voice of a female singer.

Everywhere :: Everywhere (adv.) In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether..

Achromatopsy :: Achromatopsy (n.) Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism.

Slug :: Slug (n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails..

#NAME? :: -scope () A combining form usually signifying an instrument for viewing (with the eye) or observing (in any way); as in microscope, telescope, altoscope, anemoscope..

Demi-rilievo :: Demi-rilievo (n.) A work of sculpture of the above character. See Alto-rilievo.

Trance :: Trance (n.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible..

Daltonism :: Daltonism (n.) Inability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, esp. red; color blindness. It has various forms and degrees. So called from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity..

Alt :: Alt (a. & n.) The higher part of the scale. See Alto.

Altos :: Altos (pl. ) of Alt.

Alto-relievo :: Alto-relievo (n.) Alto-rilievo.

Alto-rilievo :: Alto-rilievo (n.) High relief; sculptured work in which the figures project more than half their thickness; as, this figure is an alto-rilievo or in alto-rilievo..

Contralto :: Contralto (a.) Of or pertaining to a contralto, or to the part in music called contralto; as, a contralto voice..

Mezzo-rilievo :: Mezzo-rilievo (n.) Sculpture in this kind of relief. See under Alto-rilievo.

Contralto :: Contralto (n.) the voice or singer performing this part; as, her voice is a contralto; she is a contralto..

Alto :: Alto (n.) Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor..

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