Crossword-Solution: PLECTRUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plectrum | n. | A small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “PLECTRUM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Guitar pick | 1 answer |
| Guitarist's pick tool | 1 answer |
| LYRE accompaniment | 1 answer |
| MIZRAB | 1 answer |
| Pick for a string instrument | 1 answer |
| ZITHER accompaniment | 1 answer |
| GUITAR accompaniment | 2 answers |
| Guitarist's tool | 2 answers |
| Sitar accompaniment | 3 answers |
| HARPSICHORD, part of | 7 answers |
| Quill | 13 answers |
| "Pick ___ ..." | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PLECTRUM (5)
You mean, I said, those gentlemen who tease and torture the strings and rack them on the pegs of the instrument: might carry on the metaphor and speak after their manner of the blows which the plectrum gives, and make accusations against the strings, both of backwardness and forwardness to sound; but this would be tedious, and therefore I will only say that these are not the men, and that I am referring to the Pythagoreans, of whom I was just now proposing to enquire about harmony.
You mean, I said, those gentlemen who tease and torture the strings and rack them on the pegs of the instrument: I might carry on the metaphor and speak after their manner of the blows which the plectrum gives, and make accusations against the strings, both of backwardness and forwardness to sound; but this would be tedious, and therefore I will only say that these are not the men, and that I am referring to the Pythagoreans, of whom I was just now proposing to enquire about harmony.
And you would be allowed to write or read the letters in any order which you please, or to take up the lyre and tune the notes, and play with the fingers, or strike with the plectrum, exactly as you please, and neither father nor mother would interfere with you.
But the truth is that nature made all things to balance, and the power of using the left hand, which is of little importance in the case of the plectrum of the lyre, may make a great difference in the art of the warrior, who should be a skilled gymnast and able to fight and balance himself in any position.
There was a choral dance of ivy-clad youths, moving in intricate figures, done to the music of a ringing orchestra; then came Apollo, striking the lyre with the plectrum, and singing an ode to the praise of the House of Este; then followed, as an interlude within an interlude, a kind of rustic farce, after which the stage was again occupied by classical mythology--Venus, Bacchus and their followers--and by a pantomime representing the judgment of Paris.
Quotes with PLECTRUM (2)
From love's plectrum arisesthe song of the string of life Love is the light of lifelove is the fire of life
Tuning must come first. Each recital begins with a careful tightening of the pegs on the cross-bar, twisting them in their socket of red threads as each string is plucked and tested. He uses his thumb for this, softer and subtler than the plectrum, his head bent to the vibrating string and his lips slightly open, breathing quickly, as over the body of a lover.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1987–2017).