marimba, xylophone
(noun) a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets
Source: WordNet® 3.1
xylophone (plural xylophones)
(musical instrument) Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.
xylophone (third-person singular simple present xylophones, present participle xylophoning, simple past and past participle xylophoned)
To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
To move above a ridged surface so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.
• oxyphenol
Source: Wiktionary
Xy"lo*phone, n. Etym: [Xylo- + Gr. fwnh` sound.]
1. (Mus.)
Definition: An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle.
2. An instrument to determine the vibrative properties of different kinds of wood. Knight.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
