Crossword-Solution: OPHICLEIDE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ophicleide | n. | A large brass wind instrument, formerly used in the orchestra and in military bands, having a loud tone, deep pitch, and a compass of three octaves; -- now generally supplanted by bass and contrabass tubas. |
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| BRASS instrument | 11 answers |
| Horn | 38 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with OPHICLEIDE (5)
The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of a saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide.
Barmby, in a voice all ophicleide, remark: ‘No, I carry no instrument.’ The habitation of it at the bottom of his trunk, was not forgotten when it sounded.
Without church organ or human voice he inspired faith and enthusiasm." It might be remarked here that Beethoven, too, aroused a wondering and worshipping world without the aid of saxophone or ophicleide.
The wooden serpent has gone out of use in military bands within recollection, the ophicleide from orchestras only recently.
But I forgot that one may make too much noise in a silent place by playing the few notes on the 'ear-piercing fife' which in Othello's regimental band might have been thumped into decent subordination by his 'spirit-stirring drum'--to say nothing of gong and ophicleide.