Definition of Lichanos

1. the string struck by the forefinger [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lichanos

licensing fee
licensize
licensor
licensors
licensure
licensures
licente
licentiate
licentiates
licentiousness
licentiousnesses
licey
lich
lichanos (current term)
lichee
lichees
lichen
lichen agrius
lichen albus
lichen amyloidosis
lichen annularis
lichen haemorrhagicus
lichen infantum
lichen iris
lichen lichens on bark
lichen myxoedematosus

Literary usage of Lichanos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1834)
"G lichanos Meson. ... trite, and lichanos — were on the other hand termed moveable, as admitting of an alteration in the tuning.31 This peculiarity of the ..."

2. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music by Janet M. Green, Josephine Thrall (1908)
"A suffix equivalent to like, or ly. lichanos (lik'-ä-nös) Eng. n. from Grk. ... lichanos meson (lik-ä-nös me'-sön) Grk. 2. The third sound of the meson or ..."

3. The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler, E. J. Aiton, A. M. Duncan, Judith Veronica Field (1997)
"Therefore the lichanos (so called from the index finger) is c. Then the Mese is d; and it was called by that name because it was the middle one of seven ..."

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