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Organs

noun

Edible viscera of a butchered animal. Synonym: variety meat.

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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... black shrouds, processions, torches, silent seas of faces and bared heads, the dirges and the bells, the dim-lit churches, wailing organs, fierce invectives from the altar, and the perfume of flowers piled in heaps by silent hearts—to ...

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