Musicname

• 1

  A surname.

musicnoun/ˈmjuːzɪk/

• 1

  A series of sounds organized in time, usually employing some combination of harmony, melody, rhythm, tempo, etc., often to convey a mood.

  • I keep listening to this music because it’s a masterpiece.
  • Muſick has Charms to ſooth a ſavage Breaſt, / To ſoften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.
• 2

  Any interesting or pleasing sounds.

  • “Oh! this was very kind,” she said, with that simplicity and tenderness, which at times made her voice pure music, “I could not have expected you so soon.”
  • Wilson's definite genius for rapid, witty dialogue which becomes a kind of conversational music at times.
• 3

  An art form, created by organizing pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and/or singing.

• 4

  A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.

• 5

  slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsElectronic signal jamming.

• 6

  datedslangHeated argument.

• 7

  datedslangFun; amusement.

musicverb/ˈmjuːzɪk/

• 1

  To seduce or entice with music.

musicadj/ˈmjuːzɪk/

• 1

  rareMusical.

  • Again, Moſes was the firſt that brought in ſacred Muſick: thus in like manner Strabo lib. 10. 453. informes us, that the Bacchick Muſick was famous throughout Aſia; and that many muſick Inſtruments had obteined a Barbarick name, as Jambla, Sambuke, Barbitos, Magades, &c. which ſeem all to be of Hebrew origination.
  • Loosened / Thy tongue shall with sweet-flowing sounds surprize / The ear of sense; another than thyself / Will be seen within to have come, and bringing / Music tones from other spheres to have made / Thee ever the harp of hidden minstrelsy.