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n. Any of a family of stringed instruments, chiefly of the 16th and 17th centuries, having a fretted fingerboard, usually six strings, and a flat back and played with a curved bow.

n. See viola da gamba.

n. A viola da gamba, a family of musical instruments that preceded the violin and viola and similar string instruments

n. A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings.

n. A large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor.

n. A musical instrument with strings, essentially not greatly different from the lute and the guitar, except that the strings are sounded by means of a bow drawn across them, not by plucking them with the fingers.

n. A large rope formerly used in purchasing an anchor: same as messenger

n. An obsolete form of vial.

n. any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family

"The tastefulness of his treble viol playing and the more resonant, lower lyra viol is fetching, and his rhythmic liveliness is always in evidence, but 28 dances are slightly too much of a very good thing."

string    bowed stringed instrument   

viol d'amore    arched viol    bass viol    division viol    chest   

voyal   

viola d'amore    viola da gamba    gamba    viola da braccio    bass viol   

flageolet    cello    cithern    Pres.    tabor    bagpipe    cornet    spinet    clarionet    fiddle