Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
key .
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Examples
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"That I could help," said Arnold, as he took his tuning-key out of his pocket.
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But Czipra began to put the strings of the czimbalom out of tune with her tuning-key.
Debts of Honor M��r J��kai 1864
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"Out of tune!" said the old doctor, giving her a look made up of humourous vexation and real sadness; "I wish I knew the right tuning-key to take hold of you!"
Queechy 1854
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"Out of tune!" said the old doctor, giving her a look made up of humourous vexation and real sadness; "I wish I knew the right tuning-key to take hold of you!"
Queechy, Volume II Susan Warner 1852
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"Out of tune!" said the old doctor, giving her a look made up of humourous vexation and real sadness, -- "I wish I knew the right tuning-key to take hold of you!"
Queechy Susan Warner 1852
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"key it up," so to speak, to a certain height, as a tuning-key the strings of a musical instrument.
Concerning the Spiritual in Art Wassily Kandinsky 1905
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