Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TON'IC
TON'IC, n.
- A medicine that increases the strength and gives vigor of action to the system.
- In music, the key-note or principal sound which generates all the rest. [Fr. tonique.] Cyc.
- In music, a certain degree of tension, or the sound produced by a vocal string in a given degree of tension.
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