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Tune

Tune (tune)
n.(?)
Tune
[A variant of tone.]
  1. A sound; a note; a tone.
    "The tune of your voices." Shak.
  2. A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air.
    (b)
  3. Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood.

    A child will learn three times as much when he is in tune, as when he . . . is dragged unwillingly to [his task]. Locke.

Tune

Tune (tune)
v. t.
Tune
  1. To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds] to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin.
    " Tune your harps." Dryden.

  2. To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.

    For now to sorrow must I tune my song. Milton.

  3. To sing with melody or harmony.

    Fountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow,
    Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.     Milton.

  4. To put into a proper state or disposition.
    Shak.

Tune

Tune (tune)
v. i.(?)
Tune
  1. To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.

    Whilst tuning to the water's fall,
    The small birds sang to her.     Drayton.

  2. To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum.
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