in the ancient music, an instrument of the wind-kind, resembling our flute or flageolet.
The principal wind-instruments of the ancients, were the tibia and the fistula. But how they were constituted, wherein they differed, or how they were played upon, does not appear.
surgery, a deep, narrow, and callous ulcer, generally arising from abscesses.
It differs from a sinus, in its being callous, the latter not. See Surgery.
farriery. See Farriery, § xxxi.