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A strong piece of plank used in applying wringbolts.

it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A#) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G.

Physical ill treatment; injury. "Rejoice . . . at the abuse of Falstaff." Shak.

k. For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth.

A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty. Adjutant general (a) (Mil.), the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S.…

ich have the same almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar. [Archaic] Almucanter staff, an ancient instrument, having an arc of fifteen degrees, formerly used at sea to take observations of the sun's amplitude at the time of its rising or setting, to find the variation of the compass.

A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps. Cheever.

-tenor clef, or the C clef, placed so that the two strokes include the middle line of the staff. Moore.

more or less numerous other branches, such as engineers, medical corps, etc., besides the staff organizations such as those of the pay and subsistence departments.

Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. [U.S.]

h other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places. I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder. Zech. xi. 10. As wide asunder as pole and pole. Froude.

One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.

Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books. "Portents augural." Cowper.

Shaped like a rod or staff.

The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3.

Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff or staffs.

A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.

Deep or grave in tone. Bass clef (Mus.), the character placed at the beginning of the staff containing the bass part of a musical composition. [See Illust. under Clef.] -- Bass voice, a deepsounding voice; a voice fitted for singing bass.

A staff or cudgel. [Obs.] "To fight with blunt bastons." Holland.

A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff. Shak.