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Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting New South Wales, is about the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail.
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A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.
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Of or pertaining to the Phaeacians, a fabulous seafaring people fond of the feast, the lyre, and the dance, mentioned by Homer.
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A kind of musical instrument. a species of lyre; -- so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.
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Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf.
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An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings.
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Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet.
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A kind of lyre used by the Greeks.
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A small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments.
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A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.
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A lyre with seven chords.
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Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.
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Having a lyre-shaped shoulder girdle, as certain fishes.
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A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry.
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A kind of triangular lyre or harp.
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One of the constellations; Lyra. See Lyra.
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The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.
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Shaped like a lyre, as the tail of the blackcock, or that of the lyre bird.
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The act of playing on a lyre or harp.
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An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell.
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