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Equatorial :: Equatorial (a.) Of or pertaining to the equator; as, equatorial climates; also, pertaining to an equatorial instrument..

Palinurus :: Palinurus (n.) An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass.

Drum :: Drum (n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band..

Auriscope :: Auriscope (n.) An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.

Ministry :: Ministry (n.) Agency; instrumentality.

Averruncator :: Averruncator (n.) An instrument for pruning trees, consisting of two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on the end of a long rod..

Tool :: Tool (n.) Hence, any instrument of use or service..

Angioscope :: Angioscope (n.) An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants.

File :: File (n.) A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc..

Hydrometrograph :: Hydrometrograph (n.) An instrument for determining and recording the quantity of water discharged from a pipe, orifice, etc., in a given time..

Picklock :: Picklock (n.) An instrument for picking locks.

Chord :: Chord (n.) The string of a musical instrument.

Arms :: Arms (n.) Instruments or weapons of offense or defense.

Director :: Director (n.) A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath..

Centrebit :: Centrebit (n.) An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3..

Stylet :: Stylet (n.) An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum..

Strung :: Strumstrum (n.) A rude musical instrument somewhat like a cittern.

Lysimeter :: Lysimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil.

Micrometer :: Micrometer (n.) An instrument, used with a telescope or microscope, for measuring minute distances, or the apparent diameters of objects which subtend minute angles. The measurement given directly is that of the image of the object formed at the focus of the object glass..

Stereometric :: Stereometer (n.) An instrument for determining the specific gravity of liquid bodies, porous bodies, and powders, as well as solids..

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