noun. Any of a family of stringed instruments, chiefly of the 1500s and 1600s, having a fretted fingerboard, usually six strings, and a flat back and played with a curved bow.

noun. undefined

noun. An obsolete form of vial.

noun. A musical instrument with strings, essentially not greatly different from the lute and the guitar, except that the strings are sounded by means of a bow drawn across them, not by plucking them with the fingers.

noun. A large rope formerly used in purchasing an anchor: same as messenger

noun. 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.

noun. A large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor.

noun. A viola da gamba, a family of musical instruments that preceded the violin and viola and similar string instruments

noun. any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family

"The tastefulness of his treble viol playing and the more resonant, lower lyra viol is fetching, and his rhythmic liveliness is always in evidence, but 28 dances are slightly too much of a very good thing."

arched viol  bass viol  chest  division viol  viol d'amore  

bowed stringed instrument  string  

bass viol  gamba  viola d'amore  viola da braccio  viola da gamba  

Pres.  bagpipe  cello  cithern  clarionet  

baritone  bass viol  descant viol  rebec  tenor viol  

voyal