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Staff :: Staff (n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major..

Linstock :: Linstock (n.) A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon..

Signature :: Signature (v. t.) The designation of the key (when not C major, or its relative, A minor) by means of one or more sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff, immediately after the clef, affecting all notes of the same letter throughout the piece or movement. Each minor key has the same signature as its relative major..

Mace :: Mace (n.) A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority..

Radiometer :: Radiometer (n.) A forestaff.

Plant :: Plant (n.) A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff..

Truncheon :: Truncheon (n.) A baton, or military staff of command..

Truncheon :: Truncheon (n.) A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear..

Baston :: Baston (n.) A staff or cudgel.

Thyrsus :: Thyrsus (n.) A staff entwined with ivy, and surmounted by a pine cone, or by a bunch of vine or ivy leaves with grapes or berries. It is an attribute of Bacchus, and of the satyrs and others engaging in Bacchic rites..

Staff :: Staff (n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder..

Pestle :: Pestle (n.) A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape.

Vare :: Vare (n.) A wand or staff of authority or justice.

Bacillar :: Bacillar (a.) Shaped like a rod or staff.

Forestaff :: Forestaff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff..

Distaff :: Distaff (n.) The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand..

Augural :: Augural (a.) Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books..

Meteyard :: Meteyard (n.) A yard, staff, or rod, used as a measure..

Quarterstaff :: Quarterstaff (n.) A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end..

Colestaff :: Colestaff (n.) See Colstaff.

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