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Timber n. (Written also timbre) (Com.) A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; called also timmer.

Timber n. (Written also timbre) (Her.) The crest on a coat of arms.

Timbre n. See 1st Timber.

Timbre n.

(Her.) The crest on a coat of arms.

(Mus.) The quality or tone distinguishing voices or instruments; tone color; clang tint; as, the timbre of the voice; the timbre of a violin. See Tone, and Partial tones, under Partial.

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... wish to speak of the suggestion conveyed by means of tone-tint, the blending of timbre and pitch. It is essentially a modern element in music, and in our delight in this marvellous and potent aid to expression we have carried it to a point of development at which it threatens to dethrone what has hitherto been our musical speech, melody, in favour of what corresponds to the shadow ...

— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell

... his Celtic timbre pitched to the sky, "if I could be shtayin' a day or two longer I'd ...

— Dwellers in Arcady - The Story of an Abandoned Farm • Albert Bigelow Paine

... electro-magnetism, and know that it requires measurable time to charge an electro-magnet to saturation (about one-fifteenth of a second for those employed in telegraphy), were surprised that the telephone could follow the slightest change of timbre, requiring almost innumerable changes of force per second. I believe the free rotation I have spoken of through a limited range explains its remarkable sensitiveness and rapidity of action, and, according ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 • Various

... performed according to a certain Brahmanical ritual, on penalty of expulsion from his caste. The Brahmans may be compared to the musicians of an orchestra in which the different musical instruments are the numerous sects of their country. They are all of a different shape and of a different timbre; but still every one of them obeys the same leader of the band. However widely the sects may differ in the interpretation of their sacred books, however hostile they may be to each other, striving to put forward their particular deity, ...

— From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan • Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky

... with four strings, which, when rubbed or scraped with horsehair tightly stretched on a narrow wooden frame, were made to produce sounds imitating the cries of various animals, especially the mewing of a cat, to perfection. But as the timbre of the instrument did not lend itself to successful mechanical reproduction by the ...

— Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 153, November 7, 1917 • Various

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