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Meaning of வீணை 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.
  • of Harp
  • Pertaining to the harp; as, harping symphonies.
  • The fore parts of the wales, which encompass the bow of a vessel, and are fastened to the stem.
  • A player on the harp; a harper.
  • A female harper.
  • 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 brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone.

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