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An instrument for the evacuation of the fluid contents of tumors or collections of blood.

An instrument for observing or showing the positions of the stars. It is now disused.

An instrument for comparing the relative amount of the light of stars.

An old astronomical instrument, formed of two cones, on whose surface the constellations were delineated.

An instrument for measuring the evaporation from water, ice, or snow. Brande & C.

An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer. Huxley.

One who, or that which, atomizes; esp., an instrument for reducing a liquid to spray for disinfecting, cooling, or perfuming.

Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device attached to a sewing machine to enable it to do special work, as tucking, etc.).

To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp.

An instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged and recorded on a scale.

An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone.

An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water. Auger bit, a bit with a cutting edge or blade like that of an anger.

An instrument applied to the ears to give aid in hearing; a kind of ear trumpet. Mansfield.

An instrument for cleansing the ear, consisting of a small piece of sponge on an ivory or bone handle.

An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.

An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printing of time. Knight.

Supplying its own power; -- applied to an instrument of the nature of a water-ram.

A zitherlike musical instrument, provided with dampers which, when depressed, deaden some strings, leaving free others that form a chord.

An instrument to measure the growth of plants. Goodale.

An instrument for measuring the magnifying power of a lens or system of lenses.