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Home Dictionary Name: mouthpieceMouthpiece
The part of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it as the mouthpiece of a bugle or of a tobacco pipe...
Chibouque
A Turkish pipe usually with a mouthpiece of amber a stem four or five feet long and not pliant of some valuable wood and a bowl of baked clay...
Dictograph
A telephonic instrument for office or other similar use having a sound magnifying device enabling the ordinary mouthpiece to be dispensed with Much use has been made of it for overhearing or for recording conversations for the purpose of obtaining evidence for use in litigation...
Flageolet
A small wooden pipe having six or more holes and a mouthpiece inserted at one end It produces a shrill sound softer than of the piccolo flute and is said to have superseded the old recorder...
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A beak flute an older form of the flute played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak and held like a flageolet...
handset
The mouthpiece and earpiece of a communications device mounted on a single handle as when the telephone rings pick up the handset...
Self contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
A portable device to allow divers to breathe while under water consisting of one or two tanks of compressed air which are strapped onto the back of the diver and are connected by tubing to a mouthpiece through which the diver receives the air from the tanks at rate adjustable by a valve called also SCUBA SCUBA gear or SCUBA apparatus...
Corporation or body politic
Corporation or body politic, an artificial person es-tablished for preserving in perpetual succession certain rights, which being conferred on natural persons only would fail in process of time. It is either aggegate, consisting of many members, or sole, consisting of one person only, as a parson. It is also either spiritual, created to perpetuate the rights of the Church, or lay'sub-divided into civil, created for many temporal purposes, and eleemosynary, to perpetuate founders' charities. It is by virtue of the sovereign's prerogative exercised by a charter, or of an Act of Parliament, or of prescription, that the artificial personage called a corporation, whether sole or aggregate, civil or ecclesiastical, is created. The royal charter gives it a legal immortality, and a name by which it acts and becomes known. It has power to make bye-laws for its own government, and transacts its business under the authority of a common seal-its hand and mouthpiece; it has neither soul nor tangibl...
Speaker of the House of Lords
Speaker of the House of Lords. The Lord Chancellor, by virtue of his office, becomes, on the delivery of the seal to him by the sovereign, Speaker of the House of Lords. He is usually, but not necessarily, a peer, and unlike the Speaker of the House of Commons is under no obligation to preserve an impartial attitude, since he is a member of the Government for the time being. There has always been a Deputy Speaker, and formerly there were two or more, but since the year 1815 there has been only one. The chairman in committees generally fills the office. In the absence of the Lord Chancellor and of the Deputy Speaker, it is competent to the House to appoint any noble lord to take the woolsack. The Speaker is the organ or mouthpiece of the House, and it therefore is his duty to represent their lordship in their collective capacity, when holding intercourse with other public bodies or with individuals. He has not a casting vote upon divisions, for should the numbers prove equal, the non-co...
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