plasma

A term(plas'-ma) Grk. n.signifying a of the ancients, pluperfect In music, made wider, applied to florid, also a soft and delicate moduintervals. lati on of the voice, plures ex una (plu-res eks u'-na) Lat. plate pins Many from one: an old name for In the plate of a piano, the pins on canon because in canon two or more which the strings are fixed. parts take up exactly the same sub- Plater spiel (pla'-ter-shpeT) Ger. n. ject in succe ion. Supposed to have been borrowed plus anime (plu-za-ne-ma) Fr. from the French word, plastron, More animated. meaning breastplate: an obsolete plus lentement wood-wind instrument fitted with a More slowly, (plu lafit-man) Fr. double reed mouthpiece. The tube widened perceptibly immediately be pneuma (nu'-ma) Grk. low the mouthpiece, hence the name. Literally, breath: a brilliant vocalization consisting of runs and trills A picture of it was made in 1529 by on the last syllable of the Alleluia in Martin Agricola, but no explanation the early church, so named because of its mechanism or how it was requiring breath for its performance; played was given, a jubilation. plauso (pla'-oo-zo) It. n. pneumatic action Applause. play-house tunes pneumatic lever A term applied to mechanical de- Musical compositions performed vices in organ-building whereby the between the acts of the tragedies or touch is made light. As the word comedies don. in the old theaters of Lonpneumatic implies, these devices are of wind power. The pallet or valve pectoral at the mouth of each pipe, is opened A small piece of metal, ivory or pneumatically by means of a direct tortoise shell used to pluck the strings connection either with one of a series of certain instruments, as the man of little bellows placed in the wind dol in, and lyre, and occasionally the chest, or with one of the series of harp, when particular effects are retubes themselves furnished with quired. Equivalent to plectron,(Grk.); pistons and valves. and plectrum, (Lat.). pneumatic organ plectra phone An organ for which wind is the An attachment for a piano that motive power, in distinction from the gives the effect of a mandolin, hydraulic organ, moved by water. plectrum (plek'-trum) Lat. n. pocetta (po-chet'-ta) It. adj. Plectoral. See also plectoral. Pocket-fiddle. See also pochette. Plein jeu (plafi-zhu) Fr. poche (posh) Fr. n.