psaltery / ˈsɔl tə ri /

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psaltery 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural psal·ter·ies.

  1. an ancient musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
  2. the Psalter.

更多psaltery例句

  1. The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.
  2. Psal′tery, a stringed instrument used by the Jews: psalter; Psal′tress, a woman who plays upon the psaltery.
  3. It was in a Psaltery on which a hundred years before some Flemish monk had lavished his gold and vermilion.
  4. A psaltery, made by Thomas Perry, in Dublin, second half of eighteenth century.
  5. With his glance upon the psaltery stick, a dim notion of accounting filtered curiously into his mind and became obsessional.