LITUUS

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.

2.
n.

An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.

3.
n.

A spiral whose polar equation is r2th = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line.


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