| Pronunciation: | | 'dulsumur
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- [n] a trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers
- [n] a stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings
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DULCIMER is a 8 letter word that starts with D. |
| | See Also: | | cither, stringed instrument, zither, zithern |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dul"ci*mer\, n. [It. dolcemele,r Sp. dulcemele, fr. L.
dulcis sweet + melos song, melody, Gr. ?; cf. OF. doulcemele.
See {Dulcet}, and {Melody}.] (Mus.)
(a) An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are
beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the
performer.
(b) An ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews.
--Dan. iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the
psaltery.
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| Dream Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Seeing a dulcimer in your dream means carefree attitudes and a life where your desires will be happily realized. |
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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | (Heb. sumphoniah), a musical instrument mentioned in Dan. 3:5, 15, along with other instruments there named, as sounded before the golden image. It was not a Jewish instrument. In the margin of the Revised Version it is styled the "bag-pipe." Luther translated it "lute," and Grotius the "crooked trumpet." It is probable that it was introduced into Babylon by some Greek or Western-Asiatic musician. Some Rabbinical commentators render it by "organ," the well-known instrument composed of a series of pipes, others by "lyre." The most probable interpretation is that it was a bag-pipe similar to the zampagna of Southern Europe. |
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