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Meaning of वीणा in English

  • A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.
  • A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.
  • A grain sieve.
  • To play on the harp.
  • To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or continually; -- usually with on or upon.
  • To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
  • A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.
  • A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
  • A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.
  • To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.
  • A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.
  • To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.
  • To play on a lute, or as on a lute.
  • A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called Alpha Lyrae, or Vega.
  • The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; -- so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.
  • A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.
  • One of the constellations; Lyra. See Lyra.
  • A filamentous substance; especially, the filaments of flax or hemp.
  • A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, -- used in dressing artificial flies.
  • A genus of marine univalve shells; the harp shells; -- so called from the form of the shells, and their ornamental ribs.
  • A grappling iron.
  • of Harp
  • of Harpy
  • The fore parts of the wales, which encompass the bow of a vessel, and are fastened to the stem.
  • A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun.
  • To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon.
  • One who throws the harpoon.
  • A female harper.
  • A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three.
  • One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
  • The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
  • A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged American eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). It ranges from Texas to Brazil.

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