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The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts.
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pl. of Staff.
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One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
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A shook of staves and headings.
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A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses.
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A kind of larkspur (Delphinium Staphysagria), and its seeds, which are violently purgative and emetic. They are used as a parasiticide, and in the East for poisoning fish.
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To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
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A tall tree (Simaruba amara) growing in tropical America. It is one of the trees which yields quassia.
imp. & p. p.
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A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.
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To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.
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An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes.
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To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.
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pl. of Stave.
v. t.
To pack, as staves, in a shook.
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A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form.
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To furnish with staves or rundles.
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A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel.
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