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Subserve :: Subserve (v. t.) To serve in subordination or instrumentally; to be subservient to; to help forward; to promote.

Harp :: Harp (n.) A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers..

Stiletto :: Stiletto (n.) A pointed instrument for making eyelet holes in embroidery.

Basset Horn :: Basset horn (a.) An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves..

Elevator :: Elevator (n.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.

Thermopile :: Thermopile (n.) An instrument of extreme sensibility, used to determine slight differences and degrees of heat. It is composed of alternate bars of antimony and bismuth, or any two metals having different capacities for the conduction of heat, connected with an astatic galvanometer, which is very sensibly affected by the electric current induced in the system of bars when exposed even to the feeblest degrees of heat..

Phthongometer :: Phthongometer (n.) An instrument for measuring vocal sounds.

Metronome :: Metronome (n.) An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to measure time in music..

Minister :: Minister (n.) A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument..

Witness :: Witness (v. i.) One who sees the execution of an instrument, and subscribes it for the purpose of confirming its authenticity by his testimony; one who witnesses a will, a deed, a marriage, or the like..

Polyacoustic :: Polyacoustic (n.) A polyacoustic instrument.

Peck :: Peck (n.) A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument..

Instrumental :: Instrumental (a.) Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music..

Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music..

Maiden :: Maiden (n.) An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals..

Present :: Present (a.) Present letters or instrument, as a deed of conveyance, a lease, letter of attorney, or other writing; as in the phrase, Know all men by these presents, that is, by the writing itself, per has literas praesentes; -- in this sense, rarely used in the singular..

Decorticator :: Decorticator (n.) A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees..

Autochronograph :: Autochronograph (n.) An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printing of time.

Cittern :: Cittern (n.) An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum..

Contrabass :: Contrabass (n.) Double bass; -- applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the contrabass tuba or bombardon..

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