资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   {Music box}. See {Musical box}, under {Musical}.

   {Music hall}, a place for public musical entertainments.

   {Music loft}, a gallery for musicians, as in a dancing room
      or a church.

   {Music of the spheres}, the harmony supposed to be produced
      by the accordant movement of the celestial spheres.

   {Music paper}, paper ruled with the musical staff, for the
      use of composers and copyists.

   {Music pen}, a pen for ruling at one time the five lines of
      the musical staff.

   {Music shell} (Zo["o]l.), a handsomely colored marine
      gastropod shell ({Voluta musica}) found in the East
      Indies; -- so called because the color markings often
      resemble printed music. Sometimes applied to other shells
      similarly marked.

   {To face the music}, to meet any disagreeable necessity
      without flinching. [Colloq. or Slang]

Sphere \Sphere\, n. [OE. spere, OF. espere, F. sph[`e]re, L.
   sphaera,. Gr. ??? a sphere, a ball.]
   1. (Geom.) A body or space contained under a single surface,
      which in every part is equally distant from a point within
      called its center.

   2. Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial
      one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth.

            Of celestial bodies, first the sun, A mighty sphere,
            he framed.                            --Milton.

   3. (Astron.)
      (a) The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed
          to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in
          which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places,
          and on which the various astronomical circles, as of
          right ascension and declination, the equator,
          ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal
          geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and
          geographical circles in their proper positions on it.
      (b) In ancient astronomy, one of the concentric and
          eccentric revolving spherical transparent shells in
          which the stars, sun, planets, and moon were supposed
          to be set, and by which they were carried, in such a
          manner as to produce their apparent motions.

   4. (Logic) The extension of a general conception, or the
      totality of the individuals or species to which it may be
      applied.

   5. Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence;
      compass; province; employment; place of existence.

            To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen
            to move in 't.                        --Shak.

            Taking her out of the ordinary relations with
            humanity, and inclosing her in a sphere by herself.
                                                  --Hawthorne.

            Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe Our hermit
            spirits dwell.                        --Keble.

   6. Rank; order of society; social positions.

   7. An orbit, as of a star; a socket. [R.] --Shak.

   {Armillary sphere}, {Crystalline sphere}, {Oblique sphere},.
      See under {Armillary}, {Crystalline},.

   {Doctrine of the sphere}, applications of the principles of
      spherical trigonometry to the properties and relations of
      the circles of the sphere, and the problems connected with
      them, in astronomy and geography, as to the latitudes and
      longitudes, distance and bearing, of places on the earth,
      and the right ascension and declination, altitude and
      azimuth, rising and setting, etc., of the heavenly bodies;
      spherical geometry.

   {Music of the spheres}. See under {Music}.

   Syn: Globe; orb; circle. See {Globe}.

资料来源 : WordNet®

music of the spheres
     n : an inaudible music that Pythagoras thought was produced by
         the celestial