'Music box' definitions:
Definition of 'music box'
From: WordNet
noun
Produces music by means of pins on a revolving cylinder that strike the tuned teeth of a comb-like metal plate [syn: music box, musical box]
Definition of 'Music box'
From: GCIDE
- Musical \Mu"sic*al\, a. [Cf. F. musical.] Of or pertaining to music; having the qualities of music; or the power of producing music; devoted to music; melodious; harmonious; as, musical proportion; a musical voice; musical instruments; a musical sentence; musical persons. [1913 Webster]
- Musical box, or Music box, a box or case containing apparatus moved by clockwork so as to play certain tunes automatically. The apparatus may be driven by a wind-up spring mechanism or by batteries.
- Musical fish (Zool.), any fish which utters sounds under water, as the drumfish, grunt, gizzard shad, etc.
- Musical glasses, glass goblets or bowls so tuned and arranged that when struck, or rubbed, they produce musical notes. Cf. Harmonica, 1. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Music box'
From: GCIDE
- Music \Mu"sic\, n. [F. musique, fr. L. musica, Gr. ? (sc. ?), any art over which the Muses presided, especially music, lyric poetry set and sung to music, fr. ? belonging to Muses or fine arts, fr. ? Muse.]
- 1. The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Not all sounds are tones. Sounds may be unmusical and yet please the ear. Music deals with tones, and with no other sounds. See Tone. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (a) Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones. (b) Harmony; an accordant combination of simultaneous tones. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Love of music; capacity of enjoying music. [1913 Webster]
- The man that hath no music in himself Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Zool.) A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation. [1913 Webster]
- Magic music, a game in which a person is guided in finding a hidden article, or in doing a specific art required, by music which is made more loud or rapid as he approaches success, and slower as he recedes. --Tennyson.
- Music box. See Musical box, under Musical.
- Music hall, a place for public musical entertainments.
- Music loft, a gallery for musicians, as in a dancing room or a church.
- Music of the spheres, the harmony supposed to be produced by the accordant movement of the celestial spheres.
- Music paper, paper ruled with the musical staff, for the use of composers and copyists.
- Music pen, a pen for ruling at one time the five lines of the musical staff.
- Music shell (Zool.), a handsomely colored marine gastropod shell (Voluta musica) found in the East Indies; -- so called because the color markings often resemble printed music. Sometimes applied to other shells similarly marked.
- To face the music, to meet any disagreeable necessity, such as a reprimand for an error or misdeed, without flinching. [Colloq. or Slang] [1913 Webster]