musical (muzikal)

and n. [F. Sp. Pg. music-folio (mūzik-fō"liō), n. Same as music musical = It. musicale, As sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute. Shak., L. L. L., iv. 3. 342. All little sounds made musical and clear Beneath the sky that burning August gives, While yet the thought of glorious Summer lives. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, I. 375. 3. Pertaining to the performance or the notation of music.-4. Fond of music; discriminating with regard to music: as, the child is musical , or has a musical ear.-5. Amusing; ridiculous. [Slang, New Eng.] - Musical box, a mechanical musical instrument, consisting e entially of a barrel or cylinder, caused to revolve by clockwork, in the surface of which are small pegs or pins, so arranged as to catch and twang the teeth of a kind of steel comb. These teeth ar graduated in size, and carefully tuned; and the disposition of the pins is such as to sound them in perfect melodic succe ion and rhythm have rosit i on of the barrel may usually be slightly shifted from side to side, so that more than one une can be played from the are IMG:content-1126.png:[blocks in formation]