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Psaltery :: Psaltery (n.) A stringed instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the form of which is not known..

Alidade :: Alidade (n.) The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument.

Terzetto :: Terzetto (n.) A composition in three voice parts; a vocal (rarely an instrumental) trio.

Camera Lucida :: Camera lucida () An instrument which by means of a prism of a peculiar form, or an arrangement of mirrors, causes an apparent image of an external object or objects to appear as if projected upon a plane surface, as of paper or canvas, so that the outlines may conveniently traced. It is generally used with the microscope..

Instrumental :: Instrumental (a.) Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; as, he was instrumental in conducting the business..

Telephone :: Telephone (n.) An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance..

Tellurian :: Tellurian (n.) An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons..

Stethoscope :: Stethoscope (n.) An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax..

Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.

Rackett :: Rackett (n.) An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys..

Elevator :: Elevator (n.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.

Telescope :: Telescope (n.) An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies..

Sphygmometer :: Sphygmometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the strength of the pulse beat; a sphygmograph.

Fourchette :: Fourchette (n.) An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the fraenum.

Hygrometer :: Hygrometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the degree of moisture of the atmosphere.

Desquamatory :: Desquamatory (n.) An instrument formerly used in removing the laminae of exfoliated bones.

Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile..

Horologe :: Horologe (n.) An instrument indicating the time of day; a timepiece of any kind; a watch, clock, or dial..

Orlo :: Orlo (n.) A wind instrument of music in use among the Spaniards.

Charta :: Charta (n.) Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper..

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