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(1):

(n.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.

(2):

(n.) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.

(3):

(n.) A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.

(4):

(n.) Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

(5):

(n.) The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone.

(6):

(n.) The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.

(7):

(n.) A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.

(8):

(n.) That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.

(9):

(n.) Tonicity; as, arterial tone.

(10):

(n.) State of mind; temper; mood.

(11):

(n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.

(12):

(n.) General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.

(13):

(n.) Quality, with respect to attendant feeling; the more or less variable complex of emotion accompanying and characterizing a sensation or a conceptual state; as, feeling tone; color tone.

(14):

(n.) The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; - commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone.

(15):

(v. t.) To utter with an affected tone.

(16):

(v. t.) To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.

(17):

(v. t.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.

(18):

(n.) Color quality proper; - called also hue. Also, a gradation of color, either a hue, or a tint or shade.

(19):

(n.) The condition of normal balance of a healthy plant in its relations to light, heat, and moisture.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tone'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/tone.html. 1828.
 
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