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Definition of key

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Key (n.) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc..

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Break-circuit :: Break-circuit (n.) A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.

Steganophthalmata :: Steganography (n.) The art of writing in cipher, or in characters which are not intelligible except to persons who have the key; cryptography..

Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To tune with a wrest, or key..

Pedal :: Pedal (a.) A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle..

Douc :: Douc (n.) A monkey (Semnopithecus nemaeus), remarkable for its varied and brilliant colors. It is a native of Cochin China..

Chaunter :: Chaunter (n.) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey..

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..

Gypsy :: Gypsy (n.) One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany..

Mask :: Mask (n.) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron..

Midas :: Midas (n.) A genus of longeared South American monkeys, including numerous species of marmosets. See Marmoset..

Albanian :: Albanian (a.) Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey..

Rhesus :: Rhesus (n.) A monkey; the bhunder.

Doddart :: Doddart (n.) A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game..

Rackett :: Rackett (n.) An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys..

Bugle :: Bugle (n.) A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle..

Jockeying :: Jockeying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jocke.

Solitaire :: Solitaire (n.) A large extinct bird (Pezophaps solitaria) which formerly inhabited the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigeuz. It was larger and taller than the wild turkey. Its wings were too small for flight. Called also solitary.

Hawkey :: Hawkey (n.) See Hockey.

Mustache :: Mustache (n.) A West African monkey (Cercopithecus cephus). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose..

Caruncula :: Caruncula (n.) A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc..