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Rock :: Rock (n.) A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning..

Colestaff :: Colestaff (n.) See Colstaff.

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..

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..

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Forestaff :: Forestaff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff..

Cowlstaff :: Cowlstaff (n.) A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons.

Gibstaff :: Gibstaff (n.) A staff to guage water, or to push a boat..

Gisarm :: Gisarm (n.) A weapon with a scythe-shaped blade, and a separate long sharp point, mounted on a long staff and carried by foot soldiers..

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

Bar :: Bar (n.) A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures..

Transom :: Transom (n.) The vane of a cross-staff.

Tenth :: Tenth (n.) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third..

A :: A () The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A/) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A/) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G..

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

Direct :: Direct (n.) A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation..

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

Backstaff :: Backstaff (n.) An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed..

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

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

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