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  • 111Crinkle — Crin kle, v. i. To turn or wind; to run in and out in many short bends or turns; to curl; to run in waves; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved. [1913 Webster] The green wheat crinkles like a lake. L. T. Trowbridge. [1913… …

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  • 112Sough — (?; 277), n. [Cf. Icel. s?gr (in comp.) a rushing sound, or OE. swough, swogh, a sound, AS. sw?gan to rustle. Cf. {Surf}, {Swoon}, v. i.] 1. The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring. [1913 Webster] The whispering leaves or… …

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  • 113To brustle up — Brustle Brus tle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Brustled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Brustling}.] [OE. brustlien and brastlien, AS. brastlian, fr. berstan to burst, akin to G. prasseln to crackle. See {Burst}, v. i.] 1. To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment.… …

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  • 114crinkle — I. verb (crinkled; crinkling) Etymology: Middle English crynkelen; akin to Old English cringan to yield Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. a. to form many short bends or ripples b. wrinkle 2. to give forth a thin crackling …

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  • 115rustler — noun see rustle I …

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  • 116Fundamental frequency — Vibration and standing waves in a string, The fundamental and the first 6 overtones The fundamental frequency, often referred to simply as the fundamental and abbreviated f0 or F0, is defined as the lowest frequency of a periodic waveform. In… …

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  • 117Noise — This article is about noise as an unwanted phenomenon. For other uses, see Noise (disambiguation). NASA researchers at Glenn Research Center conducting tests on aircraft engine noise in 1967 In common use, the word noise means any unwanted …

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  • 118Fredric Brown — Infobox Writer name = Fredric Brown caption = pseudonym = birthdate = birth date|1906|10|29|mf=y birthplace = Cincinnati, Ohio deathdate = death date and age|1972|3|11|1906|10|29|mf=y deathplace = occupation = Novelist, short story author genre …

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  • 119Mission Santa Inés — in 2005. The original bell structure (erected in 1817) collapsed in 1911 and was reconstructed out of reinforced concrete in 1948. The campanile has been compared by architectural historian Rexford Newcomb to the one that originally abutted the… …

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  • 120Microtonal music — Composer Charles Ives chose the chord above as good possibility for a fundamental chord in the quarter tone scale, akin not to the tonic but to the major chord of traditional tonality.(Boatright 1971, 8 9)   …

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