单词 | mouth organ |
释义 | mouth organn. 1. A musical instrument. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > pan-pipes fristelec1400 fretel1480 quill1567 syrinx1606 mouth organ1670 sheng1795 panpipe1805 pandean harmonica1807 pandean pipe1814 shō1888 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 207 Pan striking vp a melodious tune vpon his mouth-organ at the sight of his Mistress. 1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1114 A man playing the Pan-pipes, or ‘mouth organ’. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 337 The instrumental accompaniments rarely extended beyond the shovels and a set of Pan-pipes, better known to the many, as a ‘mouth-organ’. 1840 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop I. xxxvii. 303 He breathed a hornpipe tune into that sweet musical instrument which is popularly termed a mouth-organ. 1870 Putnam's Mag. May 571/1 The instrument which was the origin of the organ..is still in common use, and is known as the ‘Pan Pipes’ or mouth-organ. b. An instrument consisting of one or more rows of differently tuned free reeds arranged in a hand-held case, played by sucking or blowing air through holes in the side of the case corresponding to each reed; a harmonica. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > reed instrument > harmonica or mouth-organ aeolina1829 French harp1855 mouth organ1866 mouth-harp1876 harmonica1880 harp1887 mouth music1887 moothie1936 1866 D. R. Locke in Daily Toledo (Ohio) Blade 6 Sept. 2/4 He wuz..playin ‘Hail to the Chief’ on a mouth organ. 1887 Sci. Amer. 19 Feb. 120/3 The mouth organ, or harmonica, is a familiar example of a simple reed instrument. 1923 ‘R. Crompton’ William Again vi So William was going to have a bicycle and a mouth-organ and pocket-compass. 1932 Collier's 9 Jan. 44/3 Joe St. Marie could make a mouth organ sob and whimper, or imitate a herd of steers or a railway train. 1951 N. Monsarrat Cruel Sea (1953) v. iv. 393 They might consider piping him aboard with a mouth-organ. 1980 Early Music 8 355/1 These, the sho of Japan and the sheng of China, are forms of free-reed mouth organ with a rigid wind chest held in the hands, the fingers remaining free to open and close the reeds in the cane pipes. c. regional (now chiefly U.S.). = Jew's harp n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > other musical instruments > [noun] > Jews' harp Jew's harp1481 Jew's trump1481 trumpc1550 juice harp1685 jaw harp1752 stang1808 guimbard1830 jawbone1844 Lochaber trump1863 mouth organ1877 mouth-harp1968 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Mooth-organ, a gew-gaw, or Jew's (jaw's) harp. 1968–9 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 699/1 Small instrument that you hold between the teeth and pluck on, [Calif.] mouth organ. 1981 L. A. Pederson et al. Ling. Atlas Gulf States 0284/020 Jew's harp,..[Florida] mouth organ or mouth harp—was mountain term. 2. Zoology. An organ or appendage forming part of the mouth of an invertebrate; esp. (in plural) the mouthparts of an insect or other arthropod. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] > member of > parts of > mouth-like appendage maxilla1798 foot-jaw1828 maxilliped1846 masticatory foot1852 mouth organ1863 gnathite1870 jaw-foot1871 gnathobase1881 jaw-process1881 malipede1883 1863 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 86 4 Insects,..have three pairs of mouth-organs, and three pairs of legs. 1866 H. Woodward Monogr. Brit. Fossil Crustacea i. 37 The remaining mouth-organs will be found to correspond exactly in number, with Limulus. 1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 239 Such of these more anterior ventral appendages as lie near the mouth are converted into mouth-organs. 1917 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 3 22 Cassiopea may be divided into three distinct parts; mouth-organs, umbrella and velar margin. 1950 Amer. Midland Naturalist 44 261 Mites of the family Tetranychidae have the following distinguishing characteristics:..the collective complex of the mouth organs not movable forward and backward. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1670 |
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