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American organ   /əmˈɛrəkən ˈɔrgən/   Listen
American organ

noun
1.
A free-reed instrument in which air is drawn in through reeds by suction bellows.





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"American organ" Quotes from Famous Books



... the address, also, I find a leading article in the "Cincinnati Lancet and Clinic" of November 30th, headed "The Decadence of Homoeopathy," abundantly illustrated by extracts from the "Homoeopathic Times," the leading American organ ...
— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... creature to spring and leap along the ground with great rapidity, as I found to my cost one night, when five of them got out of their case and gave us an hour's occupation before they could be recaptured. One managed to get inside an American organ, and effectually baffled all our efforts to secure him. There was no help for it, he had to be left there, and I went away with an anxious mind as to what his busy teeth would be employed upon all night; and, sure enough, next morning a velvet curtain ...
— Wild Nature Won By Kindness • Elizabeth Brightwen


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