helicon Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician
    bombardon.

WordNet

Hel"i*con noun
Etymology
L., fr. Gr. .
Definitions
  1. A mountain in Boeotia, 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.

Webster 1913