Vocabulary : Harmonic to Harmonite

Harmonic : Alt. of Harmonical ;; A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which is a multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See Harmonics.
Harmonica : A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones. ;; A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.
Harmonical : Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds. ;; Relating to harmony, -- as melodic relates to melody; harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body. ;; Having relations or properties bearing some resemblance to those of musical consonances; -- said of certain numbers, ratios, proportions, points, lines. motions, and the like.
Harmonicon : A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds.
Harmonics : The doctrine or science of musical sounds. ;; Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones.
Harmonies : of Harmony
Harmonious : Adapted to each other; having parts proportioned to each other; symmetrical. ;; Acting together to a common end; agreeing in action or feeling; living in peace and friendship; as, an harmonious family. ;; Vocally or musically concordant; agreeably consonant; symphonious.
Harmoniphon : An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube.
Harmonist : One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists. ;; One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a musical composer. ;; Alt. of Harmonite
Harmonite : One of a religious sect, founded in Wurtemburg in the last century, composed of followers of George Rapp, a weaver. They had all their property in common. In 1803, a portion of this sect settled in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony.
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