Definition of instrument

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Instrument (n.) A contrivance or implement, by which musical sounds are produced; as, a musical instrument..

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Point :: Point (n.) An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others; also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point; -- called also pointer..
War :: War (n.) Instruments of war.
Tetanomotor :: Tetanomotor (n.) An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.
Scraper :: Scraper (n.) An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it..
Angioscope :: Angioscope (n.) An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
Operation :: Operation (n.) Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc..
Nonetto :: Nonetto (n.) A composition for nine instruments, rarely for nine voices..
Wherewith :: Wherewith (n.) The necessary means or instrument.
Elatrometer :: Elatrometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the degree of rarefaction of air contained in the receiver of an air pump.
Rhythmometer :: Rhythmometer (n.) An instrument for marking time in musical movements. See Metronome.
Set :: Set (n.) A number of things of the same kind, ordinarily used or classed together; a collection of articles which naturally complement each other, and usually go together; an assortment; a suit; as, a set of chairs, of china, of surgical or mathematical instruments, of books, etc..
Wolf :: Wolf (a.) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale..
Scale :: Scale (n.) A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale..
Precede :: Precede (v. t.) To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the instrumental object.
Thumbscrew :: Thumbscrew (n.) An old instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw; a thumbkin.
Touch :: Touch (v.) The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes..
Photographometer :: Photographometer (n.) An instrument for determining the sensibility of the plates employed in photographic processes to luminous rays.
Hydraulicon :: Hydraulicon (n.) An ancient musical instrument played by the action of water; a water organ.
Cranioclast :: Cranioclast (n.) An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases..
Maiden :: Maiden (n.) An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals..
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