Mu"sic*al , n.
1. Music. [Obs.]
To fetch home May with
their musical.
Spenser.
2. A social entertainment of which music is the
leading feature; a musical party. [Colloq.]
Mu"sic*al (?), a. [Cf.
F. musical.]
Of or pertaining to music; having the qualities of music; or the power of
producing music; devoted to music; melodious; harmonious;
as, musical proportion; a musical voice; musical instruments; a musical sentence; musical persons.
Musical, or Music, box, a box or case containing apparatus
moved by clockwork so as to play certain tunes automatically. -- Musical fish (Zoöl.), any fish which utters sounds under water, as the drumfish, grunt, gizzard shad, etc. --
Musical glasses, glass goblets or bowls so tuned and arranged that when struck, or rubbed, they produce musical notes. Cf.
Harmonica, 1.
Hear it pronounced