flagellet

t. [ Hys legates are so furious and ragynge mad that a man Flageolet. It consists of a mouthpiece, usually a bulb in which the tone is produced, and a tube with six finger-holes. Its compa is a little more than two octaves upward from the G next above middle C. It is not now used in the orchestra. It is the representative of the ancient and medieval flute, its immediate precursor being the recorder. It is often called a flute - à - bec, in distinction from the modern German or transverse flute. The penny whistle is a cheap form of it. First, he that led the cavalcate Wore a sow-gelder's flagellate , On which he blew as strong a levet As well-fee'd lawyer on his brevate. S. Butler, Hudibras, II. ii. 610. Well-taught he all the sounds expre 'd Of flageolet or flute. Cowper, Death of Mrs. Throckmorton's Bulfinch. Double flageolet, a flageolet having two tubes and one mouthpiece, on which simple two-part music may be played. It was invented about 1800. flageolet-tones (flaj'ō-let-tōnz), n. pl. In instruments of the viol cla , harmonics-that is, tones made by lightly stopping a string at one of its aliquot divisions: so called because of their flute-like quality. would thinke, as they steppe forewardes, that Sathan wer flag-fallent, a. Out of employment, as a player. sent from the face of God to flagelle the church. Bp. Bale , English Votaries, ii. flagelliferous (flaj-e-life-rus), a. [L. flagel lum , a whip, + ferre , E. bear1 , + -ous .] Provided with flagella; flagellate.