MANICORD'ON, noun A musical instrument in the form of a spinet, whose strings, like those of the clavichord, are covered with little pieces of cloth to deaden and soften their sounds; whence it is called the dumb spinet.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.