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Definition of staff

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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..

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Officer :: Officer (n.) One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer..

Bedstaff :: Bedstaff (n.) A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side..

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

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

Staffmen :: Staffish (a.) Stiff; harsh.

Cadre :: Cadre (n.) The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.

Staff :: Staffs (pl. ) of Staf.

Verge :: Verge (n.) The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore..

Stadia :: Stadimeter (n.) A horizontal graduated bar mounted on a staff, used as a stadium, or telemeter, for measuring distances..

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..

Club :: Club (n.) A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel..

Foresight :: Foresight (n.) Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction..

C :: C () The C clef, a modification of the letter C, placed on any line of the staff, shows that line to be middle C..

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

Whipstaff :: Whipstaff (n.) A bar attached to the tiller, for convenience in steering..

Staff :: Staff (n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.

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

Wand :: Wand (n.) A staff of authority.

Crook :: Crook (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral 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..