Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Literally, with the wood: a direction in violin-playing to use the back of the bow instead of the hair.
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- adverb music : A musical notation indicating that the strings are to be struck with the wood of the bow.
Etymologies
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Italian, from col, with the, legno, wood
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