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Decrescendo :: Decrescendo (a. & adv.) With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign..

Bill :: Bill (n.) A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff..

Pikestaff :: Pikestaff (n.) The staff, or shaft, of a pike..

Alpenstock :: Alpenstock (n.) A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps..

Staved :: Stave (n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

Tipstaff :: Tipstaff (n.) A staff tipped with metal.

Lituus :: Lituus (n.) A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.

Hoist :: Hoist (n.) The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff..

Staff :: Staff (n.) A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike..

Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) See Paddle staff (b), below..

Rodsman :: Rodsman (n.) One who carries and holds a leveling staff, or rod, in a surveying party..

Assistant :: Assistant (a.) Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon..

Staff :: Staff (n.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch..

Mace :: Mace (n.) A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor..

Cross-staff :: Cross-staff (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.

Stick :: Stick (v. t.) Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick..

Flail :: Flail (n.) An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely..

Bedpost :: Bedpost (n.) Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff..

Space :: Space (n.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff..

Stave :: Stave (n.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off..

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