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Fluke :: Fluke (n.) An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.

Rackett :: Rackett (n.) An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys..

Sonata :: Sonata (n.) An extended composition for one or two instruments, consisting usually of three or four movements; as, Beethoven's sonatas for the piano, for the violin and piano, etc..

Sizer :: Sizer (n.) An instrument or tool for bringing anything to an exact size.

Blast :: Blast (n.) The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath..

Serpent :: Serpent (n.) A bass wind instrument, of a loud and coarse tone, formerly much used in military bands, and sometimes introduced into the orchestra; -- so called from its form..

Sounder :: Sounder (n.) One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound..

Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) An instrument in which gas or steam forced into a cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam)..

Alcoholmeter :: Alcoholmeter (n.) An instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale..

Chromascope :: Chromascope (n.) An instrument for showing the optical effects of color.

Barograph :: Barograph (n.) An instrument for recording automatically the variations of atmospheric pressure.

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

Blowtube :: Blowtube (n.) A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles..

Pieno :: Pieno (a.) Full; having all the instruments.

Curvilinead :: Curvilinead (n.) An instrument for drawing curved lines.

Tasimer :: Tasimer (n.) An instrument for detecting or measuring minute extension or movements of solid bodies. It consists essentially of a small rod, disk, or button of carbon, forming part of an electrical circuit, the resistance of which, being varied by the changes of pressure produced by the movements of the object to be measured, causes variations in the strength of the current, which variations are indicated by a sensitive galvanometer. It is also used for measuring minute changes of temperature..

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies..

Calibration :: Calibration (n.) The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument..

Angulometer :: Angulometer (n.) An instrument for measuring external angles.

Definition :: Definition (n.) Distinctness or clearness, as of an image formed by an optical instrument; precision in detail..

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