Definition of Melodica

1. Noun. A free-reed keyboard wind instrument. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Melodica

1. a harmonica with a small keyboard at one end [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Melodica

mells
melluco
melocervicoplasty
melocotoon
melodeon
melodeons
melodeum
melodia
melodias
melodic
melodic line
melodic minor scale
melodic minor scales
melodic phrase
melodic theme
melodica (current term)
melodically
melodicas
melodicism
melodics
melodidymus
melodies
melodiograph
melodion
melodions
melodious
melodiously
melodiousness
melodiousnesses
melodise

Literary usage of Melodica

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

1. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1873)
"In regard to Mother Goose's melodica, about which there have been some interesting disquisitions in the ..."

2. Bibliotheca Americana: Catalogue of American Publications, Including by Orville Augustus Roorbach (1849)
"Masonic melodica, by Thomas Power, 8vo Mass and Vesper Book, 64mo cl Massachusetts Bay, History of, by CR Minot, 2 v. " Madrigals, Glees, and Part Songs ..."

3. Recollections of a Lifetime: Or Men and Things I Have Seen ; in a Series of by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1857)
"I could never perceive in any of them an approach to the easy and melodica« flow of Everett, the melting earnestness of Clay, or the majestic thundering« of ..."

4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"See interval, 5. melodica (me-lod'ikä), ». [NL., fern, of LL. mélodieux, melodious: see •melodic.'] A small variety of pipe-organ, invented by JA Stein in ..."

5. The Poets of the Church: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Hymn-writers by Edwin Francis Hatfield (1884)
"He published, in 1700, at Bremen, his " Evangelia melodica," consisting of 148 spiritual songs and hymns, arranged according to the different gospels for ..."

6. The English Illustrated Magazine (1886)
"When at the height of his popularity, when the Irish melodica had shown his powers as a pathetic and patriotic lyrist and Lalla Rookh had displayed his ..."

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