The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.
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An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are organs of government.
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The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.
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Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authori…
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Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
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That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical…
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That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the rel…
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Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.
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To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twin…
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A person who claps.
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One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on…
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An effecter.
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The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing,…
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An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth.
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The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
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A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, a…
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A tongue.
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The organ with which many insects and some other animals deposit their eggs. Some ichneumon files have a long ovipositor fitted to pierce the eggs or…
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A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower lev…
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One who, or that which, stings.
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One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.
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See Syphon.
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an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
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One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; -- especially used in the plural, and applied to…
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Organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain.
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One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the cas…
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Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure…
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Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure…
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One who plays on the organ.
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One who plays on the organ.
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The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.
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The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys of an organ, typewriter, etc.
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Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form
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Of or pertaining to the foot, or to feet, literally or figuratively; specifically (Zool.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk; as, the pedal ganglio…
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A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pi…
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To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
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The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot.
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A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a…
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