Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MAN'I-CHORD, or MAN-I-CORD'ON
MAN'I-CHORD, or MAN-I-CORD'ON, n. [Fr. manichordion.]
A musical instrument in the form of a spinet, whose strings, like those of the clarichord, are covered with little pieces of cloth to deaden and soften their sounds; whence it is called the dumb spinet. Encyc.
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