Crossword clues for basses
basses
- Quarters of some quartets
- Low singers
- The lowest of the low
- Quarters of quartets
- Chorus voices
- Barbershop voices
- They sing, or swim
- Paul McCartney plays them
- Parts of many quartets
- Ones playing things low-key?
- Lowest choral parts
- Lowest choir voices
- Low strings
- Low parts
- Low men on the scale
- Four-string guitars
- Choir voices
- Chorus section
- Some guitars
- The back of the choir?
- Quarters of many quartets
- String section members
- Back row of many a choir
- Deep-voiced singers
- Choir section
- Some singers
- Low voices
- Operatic villains, often
- Some choir voices
- Choral contingent
- Some barbershop quartet members
- Low men in the choir
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bass \Bass\ (b[.a]s), n.; pl. Bass, and sometimes Basses (b[.a]s"[e^]z). [A corruption of barse.] (Zo["o]l.)
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An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.
Note: The common European bass is Labrax lupus. American species are: the striped bass ( Roccus lineatus); white or silver bass of the lakes ( Roccus chrysops); brass or yellow bass ( Roccus interruptus).
The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass.
Species of Serranus, the sea bass and rock bass. See Sea bass.
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The southern, red, or channel bass ( Sci[ae]na ocellata). See Redfish.
Note: The name is also applied to many other fishes. See Calico bass, under Calico.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of bass English)
Usage examples of "basses".
Then the tenors come in - they'll be the dragon riders of course, and the baritones Lord Holders, with a few basses to be the Professionals.
The tenors take up the narration, with increasing intensity, the basses and baritones emphasizing the plight of the land, herdbeasts left untended, wherries breaking into crops as holders, crafters, dragonfolk alike are consumed by the dread fever.
Having learned that there were many fine basses to be fished in a stream some twenty miles on, I started on horseback, with a view of passing the night there.
The variety of the fish was equal to the rapidity with which they were taken: basses, perch, sun-fish, buffaloes, trouts, and twenty other sorts.
Dame Tessitura had a beard you could strike a match on and a nose flattened half across her face, but she was still one of the best basses who ever opened beer bottles with her thumb.
Representative Michel Renaud of the Basses-Pyrenees, found several of his compatriots of the Basque country amongst the Chasseurs de Vincennes who occupied the courtyard.
De Crouseilhes, ex-Councillor of the Court of Cassation, ex-Minister (of the Basses-Pyrenees).
In the department of the Isere, in the Var, in the two departments of the Alpes, the Hautes, and the Basses, the peasants have not even wheelbarrows.
He lay in his bed almost completely dressed, on account of the cold of the Basses-Alps, in a garment of brown wool, which covered his arms to the wrists.
There were sixteen violins, four tenors, three 'celli, four double basses, flutes, oboes, bassoons, trumpets and drums.
When he wrote his first symphony in 1759 he employed first and second violins, violas, basses, two oboes and two horns.
The spirit of playful torment, the disposition of a pretty tease, speaks out of its second subject:-- [Musical excerpt] and one may, if one wishes, hear the voice of only half-serious admonition in the phrase of the basses, which the violins echo as if in mockery:-- [Musical excerpt] But, on the whole, the overture does not ask for analysis or interpretation.
This feeling he enhances by his orchestration--violas and violoncellos divided, and basses--in a way copying the solemn color with more simple means which Mozart uses in his invocation of the Egyptian deities in "The Magic Flute.
I expected melancholy trombones and basset horns and a chorus of basses intoning the Requiem in reverse: Pietatis fons, me salva, gratis salvas salvandos qui, majestatis tremendae rex.
Trombones and basset horns, a chorus of basses, the words of the Requiem trembling in the air: Rex tremendae majestatis, qui salvandos salvas gratis, sal-va me, fons pietatis.