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Backsight :: Backsight (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3..

Colestaff :: Colestaff (n.) See Colstaff.

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

Backstaff :: Backstaff (n.) An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed..

Staddle :: Staddle (v. i.) Anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane.

Staff :: Staff (n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave..

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

Fate :: Fate (n.) The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread..

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

Rack :: Rack (a.) A distaff.

Clef :: Clef (n.) A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.

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

Truck :: Truck (v. i.) A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through..

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..

Baculometry :: Baculometry (n.) Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff or staffs.

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

Staffs :: Staffs (pl. ) of Staf.

Note :: Note (n.) A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence:.

Ploughfoot :: Ploughfoot (n.) An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow.

Flagstaff :: Flagstaff (n.) A staff on which a flag is hoisted.

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