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A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes. Ps. v. (heading).

A genus of great water lilies. The North American species is Nelumbo lutea, the Asiatic is the sacred lotus, N. speciosa. [Written also Nelumbium.]

the presence of sulphuric acid. It is extremely unstable and terribly explosive. A very dilute solution is used in medicine as a neurotic under the name of glonion. [Written also nitroglycerine.]

thority, even when unjustly or oppressively exercised; one who advocates or practices absolute submission; also, one who holds that violence should never be resisted by force.

urate; invincible hardness of heart; obstinacy. "Obduracy and persistency." Shak. The absolute completion of sin in final obduracy. South.

continued this octave. Sir P. Sidney. Double octave. (Mus.) See under Double. -- Octave flute (Mus.), a small flute, the tones of which range an octave higher than those of the German or ordinary flute; -- called also piccolo. See Piccolo.

ement for sin, or as a free gift; a sacrifice; an oblation; as, sin offering. They are polluted offerings more abhorred Than spotted livers in the sacrifice. Shak.

off; as in the phrase, "He is neither on nor off," that is, he is not steady, he is irresolute.

Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry. As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god, Those priests high orgies held. Drayton.

Originating; original. [R.] An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd.

black. The European or golden oriole (Oriolus galbula, or O. oriolus) has a very musical flutelike note.

An old instrument of the lute or cittern kind. [Spelt also orpheoreon.]

Approved; conventional. He saluted me on both cheeks in the orthodox manner. H. R. Haweis.

nic basis of bone tissue; the residue after removal of the mineral matters from bone by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue, the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone; -- called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen.

Same as Ousel. The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm. Tennyson.

oduces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing.

The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks.

An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore. [Written also pandoran.]

Imitation parchment, made by soaking unsized paper in dilute sulphuric acid.

A small body containing convoluted tubules, situated near the epididymis in man and some other animals, and supposed to be a remnant of the anterior part of the Wolffian body.