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Lyra

[ lahy-ruh ]

noun

, genitive Ly·rae [lahy, -ree]
  1. Astronomy. the Lyre, a northern constellation between Cygnus and Hercules, containing the bright star Vega.
  2. a female given name.
  3. (lowercase) glockenspiel ( def ).


Lyra

/ ˈlaɪərə /

noun

  1. a small constellation in the N hemisphere lying near Cygnus and Draco and containing the star Vega, an eclipsing binary ( Beta Lyrae ), a planetary nebula (the Ring Nebula ), and a variable star, RR Lyrae


Lyra

/ /

  1. A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere near Cygnus and Hercules. Lyra (the Lyre) contains the bright star Vega.


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With a headphone monitoring output and desktop stand, the user-friendly Lyra requires no additional hardware for you to get started, but it also detaches from its stand to mount on standard microphone boom arms and stands.

Annette Ligon, with her daughter, S’Aniyah, left, and Renae Williams, with her daughter, Lyra.

They follow the adventures of a 12-year-old girl named Lyra, who lives in a fictional version of Oxford, England, circa the Victorian era.

The unusual textures (santouri, ney, lyra, clarinets, voices) impart a mystical quality to this work.

Hence Shakespeare speaks of 'the lark, that tirra-lyra chants,' Wint.

I took the viall and played some things from one of their books, Lyra lessons, which they seemed to like well.

Lyra d soi, n d' eg, kai kithara leipetai, kai kata polin chrsima; kai au kat' agrous tois nomeusi syrinx an tis ei.

The Norman abbey of Lyra held the great tithes; the vicarial amounted to just one half of them, £6.

The work met with a favourable reception, and a couple of the hymns were reproduced in the pages of Lyra Britannica.

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