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Organs

noun

Edible viscera of a butchered animal. Synonym: variety meat.

Organ

noun

A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function.

A government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function.

(music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ. Synonyms: electric organ, electronic organ, Hammond organ.

A periodical that is published by a special interest group.

Wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard. Synonym: pipe organ.

A free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows. Synonyms: harmonium, reed organ.

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... get wind of this than they manoeuvred to get Ginx's Baby under their own management. They instructed their "organs," as they called them, to pipe to popular feeling on the disgraceful apathy of the Radicals in regard to the foundling. They had him waylaid and treated to confectionery by their emissaries; and once or twice succeeded in abducting him and sending him down to the ...

— Ginx's Baby • Edward Jenkins

... reform of principles carries with it a radical transformation of details. Given an indeterminate segregation, there should be organs of guardianship for persons so secluded, for instance permanent committees for the periodical revision of sentences. In the future, the criminal judge will always secure ample evidence to prove whether a defendant is really ...

— The Positive School of Criminology - Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 • Enrico Ferri

... for the plural, "organs" or "orgons," corresponding to the plural verb "gon" in the ...

— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer

... 'doest.' It teaches us the old lesson, which sense is so apt to forget, that the true actor in man's deeds is 'the hidden man of the heart,' and that when it has acted, it matters comparatively little whether the mere tool and instrument of the hands or of the other organs have carried out the behest. The thing is done before it is done when the man has resolved, with a fixed will, to do it. The betrayal was as good as in process, though no step beyond the introductory ones, which could easily have been cancelled, had yet been accomplished. Because there was a fixed ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren

... great Liberal banquet was held, at which a resolution was voted condemning the war, and declaring that Russia could be extricated from her difficulties only by the representatives of the nation, freely elected by secret ballot. As an encouragement to the organs of local administration to persevere in their disregard of ministerial instructions, the St. Petersburg Medical Society, after adopting the programme of the Zemstvo Congress, sent telegrams of congratulation ...

— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace

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