A viol; spec. a bass viol. Also: a person who plays the viol.

A stringed instrument for playing the bass part in concerted music; a violoncello.

A musical instrument of deep sound: †(a) a kind of bass viol now obsolete; (b) see quot. 1880; (c) a baritone saxophone.

A bass-viol, n.

The double-bass viol.

A small bass-viol.

A very large instrument of the viol family, having three strings which were stopped by keys worked by the fingers and feet.