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Lituus
Webster's Dictionary
(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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Lituus'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​l/lituus.html. 1828.