The ratio of 3 to 2; mus. the interval of a fifth. …

(a) Sinful, immoral; (b) of clergy, monks, etc., and their life: not engaged in, or not fully conducive to, the serious quest for spiritual perfection [difficult to distinguish from (a)]; (c) not……

Mus. The lowest tone in the lowest tetrachord in ancient Greek music. …

(a) A key; lok and keie; also fig.; kinges keies, crowbars and hammers used to force locks or doors; (b) a representation of a key in a heraldic device; keie of rome, a key as a sign of Roman……

Mus. The sixth degree or note of Guido d'Arezzo's hexachordal scales. …

(a) Liberality, generosity; (b) liberal bestowal of gifts; maken large, ?to bestow gifts liberally; (c) a generous person. …

Mus. The third note in a Greek tetrachord. …

(a) The long dimension of something, length; also, size, magnitude; in long, in length, as to length; also, lengthwise; of long, in length; also, of (a specified) length; on long, in length; upon long……

(a) Mus. An instrument with a large pear-shaped body and slender neck, with four or more strings, played by plucking; a lute; (b) a hump like the body of a lute. …

(a) A course of action, method, way; a means of attaining an end; (b) bi mene of, with menes of; bi no (manere of) mene; bi al menes; bi god menes, with great skill; menes and weies; weies and menes……

Mus. The third of the six tones of the hexachord. …

(a) A middle region in space, the middle part of a thing; the interior of a country, central part of a constellation, middle stories of a building; middle of a stream, town, bodily part, etc.; (b) the……

Mus. A note intermediate between the semibreve and the crotchet, prob. equivalent to a modern half-note. [See also minute n.(2).] …

Mus. An ornament consisting of a group of short notes sung rapidly [see Apel Dict.Mus. 542-6]. …

(a) Softened, pulverized; of soil: loose, powdery; (b) of weather: mild; (c) as noun: something soft or weak, an effeminate man, the soft part of the head; (d) mus. flat [see be-mol n.]. …

(a) A multiple; (b) mus. a type of harmonic proportion. …

(a) A number; (b) nombre diminutif, a number greater than the sum of its aliquot parts; nombre dividing, a divisor; nombre exeant, quotient [see exeant]; nombre multipliing, a multiplier; nombre of……

(a) Flawless, unblemished; also fig.; of persons, actions, intentions: faultless, blameless; of gold, metal: perfectly refined; of a soul: pure; of law: incorrupt; of sight, light: unobscured……

(a) A tube or hollow cylinder employed as a receptacle or passage for liquid, smoke, etc.; the nozzle of a bellows; flue of a chimney; beli pipe, the nozzle of a bellows; (b) a water pipe, conduit……

(a) Flat, level, even; of geographic areas: low in elevation, lowland; broad, flat; also, of an engraving: worked in low relief; plain contre (ground, place, thing), a plain, plateau, or lowland……