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Definition of Melodica
1. a harmonica with a small keyboard at one end [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melodica
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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