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Sceptre :: Sceptre (n.) A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace..

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

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

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

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:.

Baston :: Baston (n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court..

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

Backstaff :: Backstaff (n.) An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed..

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..

Warder :: Warder (n.) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will..

Target :: Target (n.) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff..

Pikestaff :: Pikestaff (n.) A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping..

Professoriate :: Professoriate (n.) The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college..

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..

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

Burdon :: Burdon (n.) A pilgrim's staff.

Distaffs :: Distaffs (pl. ) of Distaf.

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

Verge :: Verge (n.) A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean..

Rock Staff :: Rock staff (v. i.) An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge..

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