The amulet of the scarab has been found in Egypt in untold thousands, and the varieties are exceedingly numerous. They are made of green basalt, green granite, limestone, green marble, blue paste, blue glass, purple, blue and green glazed porcelain, etc.; and the words of power are usually cut in outline on the base.
Dulcimer, stringed musical instrument, a version of the psaltery in which the strings are beaten with small hammers rather than plucked.
Also called hammered dulcimer, hammer dulcimer. a trapezoidal zither with metal strings that are struck with light hammers. 2. Also called mountain dulcimer. a modern folk instrument related to the guitar and plucked with the fingers.