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- English Word Lyra Definition The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; -- so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.
- English Word Lyraid Definition Same as Lyrid.
- English Word Lyrate Definition Alt. of Lyrated
- English Word Lyrated Definition Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf.
- English Word Lyrated Definition Shaped like a lyre, as the tail of the blackcock, or that of the lyre bird.
- English Word Lyre Definition A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.
- English Word Lyre Definition One of the constellations; Lyra. See Lyra.
- English Word Lyre bird Definition Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting New South Wales, is about the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail.
- English Word Lyric Definition Alt. of Lyrical
- English Word Lyric Definition A lyric poem; a lyrical composition.
- English Word Lyric Definition A composer of lyric poems.
- English Word Lyric Definition A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural.
- English Word Lyric Definition The words of a song.
- English Word Lyrical Definition Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.
- English Word Lyrical Definition Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet.
- English Word Lyrically Definition In a lyrical manner.
- English Word Lyricism Definition A lyric composition.
- English Word Lyrid Definition One of the group of shooting stars which come into the air in certain years on or about the 19th of April; -- so called because the apparent path among the stars the stars if produced back wards crosses the constellation Lyra.
- English Word Lyrie Definition A European fish (Peristethus cataphractum), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; -- called also noble, pluck, pogge, sea poacher, and armed bullhead.
- English Word Lyriferous Definition Having a lyre-shaped shoulder girdle, as certain fishes.