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An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of liquids.

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

ly on shipboard. -- Local battery (Teleg.), the battery which actuates the recording instruments of a telegraphic station, as distinguished from the battery furnishing a current for the line. -- Local circuit (Teleg.), the circuit of the local battery. -- Local color. (a) (Paint.) The color which belongs to an objec…

The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment.

A neutral tint given to spectacles, shade glasses for optical instruments, etc., which reduces the intensity without materially changing the color of the transmitted light.

An instrument, as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn, a cord, etc.

ith, to share the fortunes of. -- To cast lots, to use or throw a die, or some other instrument, by the unforeseen turn or position of which, an event is by previous agreement determined. -- To draw lots, to determine an event, or make a decision, by drawing one thing from a number whose marks are concealed from the…

ns of a lamp, and its image is thrown upon a plate of ground glass connected with the instrument, or on a screen independent of it.

an instrument for measuring the intensity of light; a photometer.

A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings ar…

A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.

An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. Knight.

The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.

An instrument for determining the size or distance of inaccessible objects by means of two reflectors on a common sextant.

An instrument to extract hairs.

An automatic instrument for registering, by photography or otherwise, the states and variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements.

An instrument for measuring the intensity of magnetic forces; also, less frequently, an instrument for determining any of the terrestrial magnetic elements, as the dip and declination.

easurement of magnetic forces; obtained by means of a magnetometer; as, magnetometric instruments; magnetometric measurements.

An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals. Wharton.

An instrument closely resembling the mandolin, but of larger size and tuned lower.