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Nave Topical Bible
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American Tract Society
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
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Holman Bible Dictionary
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
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King James Dictionary
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
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Smith Bible Dictionary
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
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Webster Dictionary
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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FLUTE, n. L. flo, flatus, to blow, or L. fluta, a lamprey, with the same number of holes.

1. A small wind instrument a pipe with lateral holes or stops, played by blowing with the mouth, and by stopping and opening the holes with the fingers.

2. A channel in a column or pillar a perpendicular furrow or cavity, cut along the shaft of a column or pilaster so called from its resemblance to a flute. It is used chiefly in the Ionic order sometimes in the Composite and Corinthian rarely in the Doric and Tuscan. It is called also a reed.

3. A long vessel or boat, with flat ribs or floor timbers, round behind, and swelled in the middle a different orthography of float, flota.

Armed in flute. An armed ship, with her guns of the lower tier and part of those of the upper tier removed, used as a transport, is said to be armed in flute.

FLUTE, To play on a flute.

FLUTE, To form flutes or channels in a column.