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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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... he was the only creature in Riverboro who possessed Rebecca's entire confidence; the only being to whom she poured out her whole heart, with its wealth of hopes, and dreams, and vague ambitions. At the brick house she practiced scales and exercises, but at the Cobbs' cabinet organ she sang like a bird, improvising simple accompaniments that seemed to her ignorant auditors nothing short of marvelous. Here she was happy, here she was loved, here she was drawn out of herself and admired and made much of. ...

— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... years of age, well grown, black, and of prepossessing appearance. The organ of hope seemed very strong in him. Jim had been numbered with the live stock of the late Hon. L. McLane, who had been called to give an account of his stewardship about two months before Jim ...

— The Underground Railroad • William Still

... current in Highland tradition. It has, however, been improved and made infinitely more picturesque by several generations of narrators. As we try to be faithful to the best sources, the contemporary manuscript version is here reprinted from The Scottish Standard-Bearer, an organ of the Scotch Episcopalians (October and ...

— The Book of Dreams and Ghosts • Andrew Lang

... would find the new Flying Post better than the old. It was in his labours on this sham Flying Post, as the original indignantly called it in an appeal to Hurt's sense of honour and justice against the piracy, that Defoe came into collision with the law. His new organ was warmly loyal. On the 14th of August it contained a highly-coloured panegyric of George I., which alone would refute Defoe's assertion that he knew nothing of the arts of the courtier. His Majesty was described ...

— Daniel Defoe • William Minto

... gentleman from Italy asks no loftier strain than the tune of his hand organ and the jingle of the nickels, "the tribute ...

— Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales • Robert L. Taylor

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