Viol is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VIOL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• any member of a class of stringed instruments, forerunners of the violin class
• a musical instrument of the Renaissance and baroque periods, typically six-stringed, held vertically and played with a bow.
• early stringed instrument preceding the violin
• A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings.
• A large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor.
• any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a stringed instrument

Words related to VIOL

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Words that contain VIOL

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How to use VIOL in a sentence

• Through the dull wail of the snowstorm came again the melody of the viol and the heavenly voice, faint as the dawning day.
• The message they convey might have been told almost as perfectly upon the lute or viol.
• Over all the noise he could hear the man tuning the viol.
• I can yet manage a song to the viol, I dare affirm.
• We went up into our dormitory, taking with us our instruments as usual, among them the bass viol of our invention.
• Our next step was to draw the rope wholly into the dormitory and fasten its wet end to the bass viol.
• We had aboard trumpet and drum and viol, and he would have frequent music.
• And he showed maidens and youths in the vineyard, gathering the grapes into baskets, and one amongst them, a boy, who played on the viol.
• But even yet, in the perfect grouping of the figures, the splendour of the viol player, the frightened gaze of the servants, we may still see the very hand of Giotto.
• This gentle son of poverty, seeking his bread with the strings of his viol, this Bohemian of the eleventh century, goes to regenerate barbarian society.
• Also the frontispiece, where the treble viol and viol-da-gamba have carved heads, both human, but of different types.
• Mace also says that the treble viol had its strings just half the length of the bass viol, and the tenor was of a medium size between these.
• We still have one of the viol tribe left in our orchestra.
• As the viol fell out of fashion, the violin took its place, and has kept it ever since.
• Viol, treble, tenor, bass, 12, 13, 19, 31, 45, 46, 47, 171, and frontispiece.
• He had a good ear for music, and was no indifferent performer on the violin, which he used to play like a bass viol, seated on a chair with the instrument between his legs.
• This Minuccio set at once to exquisite and heart-moving music and sang it for the King to the accompaniment of his own viol.
• In another place Dioneo with lute and Fiametta with viol play a dance.
• The accounts which have come down to us note that the song of Aurora was accompanied by a gravicembalo, an organ, a flute, a harp and a large viol.
• The preacher was not a little annoyed, for he wanted the viol for his own service at the chapel, where he was going to preach directly contrary to the old parson.
• And to measure the song in its charm, Or to handle the viol with skill, Or beauty with carols to warm, Gone for ever, the power and the will.
• They desired me to take up a Viol, and bear a part.
• Yet above the muffled sound of the beating of the snow against the windows rose the sounds of the beautiful voice and the viol in unison, far off and faint as the dawn.
• So took she the viol and went to a mariner, and so wrought on him that he took her aboard his vessel.
• Before this time the Independents had contented themselves with violins and a bass viol, and for a time with a clarionette.
• He held this for two years, afterward playing viol in the orchestra for several years more.
• The sound of the viol is again heard, and the merry dance is kept up till near morning light.

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