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Flute   /flut/   Listen
noun
Flute  n.  
1.
A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole. "The breathing flute's soft notes are heard around."
2.
(Arch.) A channel of curved section; usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture.
3.
A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.
4.
A long French breakfast roll.
5.
A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound.
Flute bit, a boring tool for piercing ebony, rosewood, and other hard woods.
Flute pipe, an organ pipe having a sharp lip or wind-cutter which imparts vibrations to the column of air in the pipe.


Flute  n.  A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
Armed en flute (Nav.), partially armed.


verb
Flute  v. t.  (past & past part. fluted; pres. part. fluting)  
1.
To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute. "Knaves are men, That lute and flute fantastic tenderness." " The redwing flutes his o-ka-lee."
2.
To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.


Flute  v. i.  To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.





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"Flute" Quotes from Famous Books



... peace which was ever smoked between a European and an Indian. Among other musical instruments, I noticed the lyre of Orpheus and those of Homer and Sappho, Dr. Franklin's famous whistle, the trumpet of Anthony Van Corlear, and the flute which Goldsmith played upon in his rambles through the French provinces. The staff of Peter the Hermit stood in a corner with that of good old Bishop Jewel, and one of ivory, which had belonged to Papirius, the Roman senator. The ponderous club of Hercules ...
— A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... sweet, though it lacked the cultivated modulations of other tones he knew and loved. There was something in its cadences that recalled to him the flute-notes of the English white-throat, a melody that attracts only to disappoint. He smiled softly at her transparent reticence, and followed up his question. "Is it because the freshness of the morning tempts you out?" he said. "Or"—dropping his voice with ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 • Various
... gone; Gone is the flute-like note, the yearning strain, And all the air forlorn Is breathless till ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 • Various
... do you say? He'll be giving us into custody again. 'Tillery's our only chance. He daren't touch us there. But I say, he isn't going back to the office. Let's run and get what's in our desks. There's my old flute." ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... came and went, The hunter's gun in the marshes rang; At nightfall from a neighboring tent A flute-voiced woman sweetly sang. Loose-haired, barefooted, hand-in-hand, Young girls went tripping down the sand; And youths and maidens, sitting in the moon, Dreamed o'er the old fond dream from ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier


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