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Definition of Musical box
1. Noun. Produces music by means of pins on a revolving cylinder that strike the tuned teeth of a comb-like metal plate.
Definition of Musical box
1. Noun. (musical instruments) Any of various devices that play tunes by means of pins, on a rotating disk or revolving drum, that strike or pluck metal teeth ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Musical Box
Literary usage of Musical box
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1875)
"I, Dawkins' " Cave Hunting ;", Hartwig's "Sea and its Living Wonders;" 3, Colgate's
Soaps for Travelers ; 4, musical box, " a present for a sleepless ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"MUSICAL-BOX, an instrument for producing by mechanical means tunes or pieces of
... The modern musical-box is an elaboration of the elegant toy musical ..."
3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1856)
"a continued sound, but short and crisp, like a musical-box, and capable of being
mixed with the ordinary tone. It has been played upon at a concert and much ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"musical box, a case enclosing mechanism so constructed as to play tunes automatically.
The principle of the mechanism is the same as that of the barrel or ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1856)
"a continued sound, but short and crisp, like a musical-box, and capable of being
mixed with the ordinary tone. It has been played upon at a concert and much ..."
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