(music) A musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings placed on a horizontal surface, played with a plectrum or fingertips.

(transitive) To push or shake abruptly and roughly. / (transitive) To knock sharply / (transitive) To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert / (transitive) To shock emotionally.

(chemistry) Pertaining to a type of complex heterocyclic triazine related to melem. / Melon-like. / Squamosal. / Alternative form of melanic / (mathematics) Pertaining to a leading order graph.

Abbreviation of Prefecture.