An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox: I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire. That stupid shepherd lolling on his crook With deaf attention scarcely deigns to look. I bide my time, and it shall come at length, When, with a Titan's energy and strength, I'll grab a fistful of the strings, and O, The word shall suffer when I let them go! Farquharson Harris
A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.
One of the various harp-like instruments played in ancient Greece and Rome.
the symbol and badge of Alpha Chi Omega, chosen because it was the instrument of the Greek gods
A lyre is a small harp played at Anglo-Saxon feasts.
1) The instrument of the Greek gods; 2) The symbol and badge of Alpha Chi Omega; 3) Quarterly publication of the Fraternity.
a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment
a musical instrument similar to a harp
an ancient Greek stringed instrument consisting of a resonating tortoise shell to which a crossbar was attached by two projecting arms
an instrument which looks like a hand-held harp
a small musical instrument that resembles a harp
a stringed instrument of the harp family used to accompany a singer or reader of poetry
Ancient plucked-string instrument of the harp family, used to accompany singing and poetry.
An ancient Greek instrument with a four-sided frame. This frame encompasses strings attached from a soundbox to a cross bar. It is played like a harp.
The lyre is a stringed musical instrument well known for its use in Classical Antiquity. The recitations of the Ancient Greeks were accompanied by lyre playing.