HARMONICON

Noun

harmonicon (plural harmonicons)

(dated, musical instruments) The harmonica.

(historical) An acoustic apparatus that produces a musical note when a long dry tube, open at both ends, is held over a jet of burning hydrogen.

Synonym: hydrogen harmonicon

Source: Wiktionary


Har*mon"i*con, n.

Definition: A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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