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Separatory :: Separatory (n.) A surgical instrument for separating the pericranium from the cranium.

Noctograph :: Noctograph (n.) An instrument or register which records the presence of watchmen on their beats.

Thermoscope :: Thermoscope (n.) An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer..

Scraper :: Scraper (n.) An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship..

Horography :: Horography (n.) The art of constructing instruments for making the hours, as clocks, watches, and dials..

Intendment :: Intendment (n.) The true meaning, understanding, or intention of a law, or of any legal instrument..

Lucimeter :: Lucimeter (n.) an instrument for measuring the intensity of light; a photometer.

Chlorometer :: Chlorometer (n.) An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.

Dioptra :: Dioptra (n.) An optical instrument, invented by Hipparchus, for taking altitudes, leveling, etc..

Reservation :: Reservation (n.) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before..

Instrumentalities :: Instrumentalities (pl. ) of Instrumentalit.

Bedkey :: Bedkey (n.) An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead.

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..

Dulcimer :: Dulcimer (n.) An ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews. Dan. iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery.

Septette :: Septette (n.) A musical composition for seven instruments or seven voices; -- called also septuor.

Spade :: Spade (n.) A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

Rugine :: Rugine (n.) An instrument for scraping the periosteum from bones; a raspatory.

Violin :: Violin (n.) A small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle..

Anemometer :: Anemometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of the wind; a wind gauge.

Tool :: Tool (n.) An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work..

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