Associations to the word «Harmonium»

Wiktionary

HARMONIUM, noun. (music) A small keyboard instrument consisting of a series of reed pipes which sound when air is allowed to pass through them by means of a valve that opens when a key is depressed.

Dictionary definition

HARMONIUM, noun. A free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats