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The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the sca…

The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and ther…

The grand marshal of the old German empire, a dignity that to the Elector of Saxony.

A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and…

To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.

The conductor of a musical band.

A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.

A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff.

One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chie…

A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field.

The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive woo…

Relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground.

A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.

a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal t…

A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn.

A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.

A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer…

(physics) the potential energy of an electric charge in an electric field, or of an electric current in a magnetic field.