1. Noun
A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.
2. Noun
An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.
3. Noun
A spiral whose polar equation is r2/ = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line.
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