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Pedal :: Pedal (a.) A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle..

Bipedal :: Bipedal (n.) Having two feet; biped.

Tripedal :: Tripedal (a.) Having three feet.

Equipedal :: Equipedal (a.) Equal-footed; having the pairs of feet equal.

Sesquipedal :: Sesquipedal (a.) Alt. of Sesquipedalia.

Pedalian :: Pedalian (a.) Relating to the foot, or to a metrical foot; pedal..

Decempedal :: Decempedal (a.) Having ten feet; decapodal.

Pedality :: Pedality (n.) The act of measuring by paces.

Sesqyipedality :: Sesqyipedality (n.) The quality or condition of being sesquipedal.

Organ :: Organ (n.) A wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ..

Dinosauria :: Dinosauria (n. pl.) An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large bird tracks, so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix..

Sesqyipedality :: Sesqyipedality (n.) The use of sesquipedalian words; style characterized by the use of long words; sesquipedalism.

Subbeadle :: Sub-bass (n.) The deepest pedal stop, or the lowest tones of an organ; the fundamental or ground bass..

Pedomotive :: Pedomotive (a.) Moved or worked by the action of the foot or feet on a pedal or treadle.

Quadrupedal :: Quadrupedal (a.) Having four feet; of or pertaining to a quadruped.

Manual :: Manual (a.) A keyboard of an organ or harmonium for the fingers, as distinguished from the pedals; a clavier, or set of keys..

Laelaps :: Laelaps (n.) A genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from the Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high..

Decempedal :: Decempedal (a.) Ten feet in length.

Principal :: Principal (n.) In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason..

Sesquipedalism :: Sesquipedalism (n.) Sesquipedality.

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