( n. )
A kind of musical instrument. a species of lyre; -- so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.
( n. )
A kind of musical instrument. a species of lyre; -- so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary. Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012