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• albarello — /al beuh rel oh/, n., pl. albarellos, albarelli / rel ee/. a majolica jar of the 15th and 16th centuries, cylindrical with a waist slightly narrower than the ends, used in Spain and Italy for keeping dry drugs. [1870 75; < It, prob. dim. of… …   Universalium

• stringed instrument — a musical instrument having strings as the medium of sound production, played with the fingers or with a plectrum or a bow: The guitar, the harp, and the violin are stringed instruments. * * * Any musical instrument that produces sound by the… …   Universalium

• frame harp — ▪ musical instrument  musical instrument in which the neck and soundbox are joined by a column, or forepillar, which braces against the tension of the strings. It is one of the principal forms of harp and in modern times is found exclusively in… …   Universalium

• Irish harp — ▪ musical instrument Irish  clairseach,  Scottish Gaelic  clarsach        traditional harp of medieval Ireland and Scotland, characterized by a huge soundbox carved from a solid block of wood; a heavy, curved neck; and a deeply outcurved… …   Universalium

• Leiothrix — ▪ bird genus       genus of birds of the babbler family Timaliidae (order Passeriformes), with two species: the silver eared mesia, or silver ear (L. argentauris), and the red billed leiothrix (L. lutea), which is known to cage bird fanciers as… …   Universalium

• Cabriole leg — noun In furniture design, a curved leg with outcurved knee and incurved ankle. A signature design element of the Queen Anne style of furniture, the cabriole predates both 18th century England and Italy. The style originated …   Wiktionary

• Apex — From the Latin meaning summit, the apex is the tip of a pyramidal or rounded structure, like the lung or the heart. The apex of the lung is indeed its tip, its rounded most superior portion. The apex of the heart is likewise its tip, but that is… …   Medical dictionary

• convex — [adj] rounded, curving outward arched, bent, biconvex, bulged, bulging, bulgy, gibbous, outcurved, protuberant, raised; concept 486 Ant. concave, depressed, sinking …   New thesaurus