noun. A stringed instrument of the harp family having two curved arms connected at the upper end by a crossbar, used to accompany a singer or reciter of poetry, especially in ancient Greece.

noun. See lire.

noun. An obsolete form of leer.

noun. In music

noun. A stringed instrument of Egyptian origin, which became the national instrument of ancient Greece.

noun. An element in the name of some instruments of the viol class, as the arm-lyre or lira da braccio, and the knee-lyre or lira da gamba. See lira.

noun. A kind of metallic harmonica, mounted on a lyre-shaped frame, occasionally used in military music.

noun. A kind of rebec used by the modern Greeks. See rebec.

noun. [capitalized] A constellation. See Lyra, 1.

noun. A verse of the kind commonly used in lyric poetry.

noun. The Manx shearwater, Puffinus anglorum.

noun. A grade of isinglass: a trade-name.

In pianoforte-making, the lyre-shaped frame to which the pedals are attached and through which the pedal-rods work.

The posterior portion of the under surface of the fornix of the brain, marked by a number of lines bearing a fancied resemblance to a lyre. Also called lyre of David or lyra Davidis.

noun. A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.

noun. One of the constellations; Lyra. See Lyra.

noun. a small bat (Megaderma lyra), inhabiting India and Ceylon. It is remarkable for the enormous size and curious shape of the nose membrane and ears.

noun. the leatherback.

noun. A stringed musical instrument.

noun. a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment

"Contradictories as _No centaurs play the lyre -- Some centaurs do play the lyre_; or _All unicorns fight with lions -- Some unicorns do not fight with lions_, are both meaningless, because in Zoology there are no centaurs nor unicorns; and, therefore, in this reference, the propositions are not really contradictory."

greek lyre  æolian lyre  

Lyra  lyrebird  lyrical  

harp  

trigon  

Gire  Gyr  Tyre  admire  afire  

bugle  cello  cornet  fiddle  fife  

shell  stahlspiel  trigon  

Lyra