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The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.
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a.
Of or pertaining to Switzerland, or the people of Switzerland.
n.
A song sung by yodeling, as by the Swiss mountaineers.
n.
A Swiss; a Switzer.
n.
A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss.
a.
Of, pertaining to, or in conformity with, the practice of Paracelsus, a Swiss physician of the 15th century.
n.
A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Swiss.
n.
A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
n.
A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.
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Belonging to, or characteristic of, a system of elementary education which combined manual training with other instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher.
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A kind of Swiss cheese, of a greenish color, flavored with melilot.
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A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.
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Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss.
n. pl.
Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss Alps.
n. sing. & pl.
An inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of the Swiss canton of Vaud.
v. t. & i.
To sing in a manner common among the Swiss and Tyrolese mountaineers, by suddenly changing from the head voice, or falsetto, to the chest voice, and the contrary; to warble.
n.
The upper and less numerous branch of a legislature in various countries, as in France, in the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons.
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A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Switzer; the people of Switzerland.
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A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.
n. pl.
The largest and most eastern of the Swiss cantons.
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