- Flow controller - Flow regulator - Flow-rate control - Safety device - Stopcock concealed by medieval ventriloquists - Trumpet part - A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one
of the leaves of such a door.
- neptune - Olden sea god - A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite,
and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters
as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower
part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell. - Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to
Triton and allied genera, having a stout spiral shell, often handsomely
colored and ornamented with prominent varices. Some of the species are
among the largest of all gastropods. Called also trumpet shell, and sea
trumpet. - Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders. The
common European species are Hemisalamandra cristata, Molge palmata, and
M. alpestris, a red-bellied species common in Switzerland. The most
common species of the United States is Diemyctylus viridescens. See
Illust. under Salamander.
- Brass instrument played with a slide - instrument mouthpiece - A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought
by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts,
bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent
double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by
change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the
instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare
instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family
of wind instruments whose scale, both diatonic and chromatic, is
complete without the aid of keys or pistons, and which can slide from
note to note as smoothly as the human voice or a violin. Softly blown,
it has a rich and mellow sound, which becomes harsh and blatant when
the tones are forced; used with discretion, its effect is often solemn
and majestic. - The common European bittern.