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schry•a•ri
(shrī′ə rī′),USA pronunciation n.
- Music and Dancea musical woodwind instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries having a double reed concealed in a cylinder and producing a shrill tone.
- Middle Low German schrȳ(en) to shriek + Latin -ārium -ary
- 1935–40