helicon : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: helicon	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for helicon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
helicon n a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician [syn: helicon, bombardon]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Helicon \Hel"i*con\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?].] A mountain in B[d2]otia, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. --Gray.