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n. A military trumpet.

n. A curve with polar equation , where a is a constant.

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

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

n. A spiral whose polar equation is r2θ = 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.

n. In Roman antiquity: A staff with a recurved or crooked top, used by the augurs in quartering the heavens; an augural wand.

n. An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet curved at the outer extremity, and having a shrill tone.

n. A spiral of which the characteristic property is that the squares of any two radii vectores are reciprocally proportional to the angles which they respectively make with a certain line which is given in position and which is an asymptote to the spiral. This name was given by Cotes (died 1716).

n. [capitalized] In zoology: A genus of cephalopods: same as Spirula.

n. A genus of gastropods: same as Cyclostoma.

"This sort of staff is crooked at one end, and is called lituus; they make use of it in quartering out the regions of the heavens when engaged in divination from the flight of birds; Romulus, who was himself a great diviner, made use of it."