Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Lituus

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Lituus


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(1):

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

(2):

(n.) A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.

(3):

(n.) A spiral whose polar equation is r2/ = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line.