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organn.1

Brit. /ˈɔːɡ(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈɔrɡ(ə)n/
Forms: Old English–1600s organe, Old English– organ, late Old English orgæne, Middle English organn, Middle English organt, Middle English orgayn, Middle English orgene, Middle English orgeyn, Middle English orgiene, Middle English orgne, Middle English orgoun, Middle English orgoyn, Middle English orgun, Middle English orgyn, Middle English orgynn, Middle English origene, Middle English–1500s orgen, Middle English–1500s orgon, Middle English–1500s orgone, 1500s orgain (Scottish), 1500s–1600s orgaine, 1500s–1600s orgayne, 1800s– horgin (English regional (Leicestershire)).
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin organum; French organe, orgene.
Etymology: In Old English < classical and post-classical Latin organum (plural organa ): see below; in later use reborrowed < Anglo-Norman organe, organ, orgene, orgyn and Old French orgene, Old French, Middle French, French organe, Middle French orgain, organne, orguan musical instrument (12th cent.; compare also Old French, Middle French, French orgue (12th cent.; since the early 18th cent. specifically in this sense)), something that acts as an instrument or means (1404 or earlier), the voice (1465; late 12th cent. in Old French in an isolated attestation), bodily organ (a1470 in Chauliac), person who acts as an intermediary (mid 16th cent.), means of communication or of expression of opinion (1782) and its etymon classical Latin organum (plural organa ) mechanical device, instrument, engine of war, musical instrument, hydraulic organ, organ pipe, in post-classical Latin also bodily organ (early 3rd cent.), organ of speech (late 4th cent.), church organ (5th cent.), singing, polyphony (9th cent.; from 12th cent. in British sources), person who acts as an intermediary (mid 14th cent.), instrumentality, agency (c1397, 1448 in British sources) < ancient Greek ὄργανον (plural ὄργανα ) tool, instrument, engine of war, musical instrument, surgical instrument, also bodily organ especially as instrument of sense or faculty, originally ‘that with which one works’ < an ablaut variant of the base of ἔργον work (see work n.). Compare Old Occitan, Occitan orgue (14th cent.), orguena (15th cent.), both now only in sense ‘musical organ’, Occitan organ bodily organ, Italian organo (13th cent.), Spanish organo (13th cent.), Portuguese orgão (14th cent.). The Latin word was also borrowed into other West Germanic languages, compare Middle Dutch orgene , Middle Low German organe , Old High German organa , orgina (Middle High German organe , orgene )), all in sense ‘musical organ’ (compare also (as a later reborrowing) Dutch orgaan (1784), German Organ (16th cent.), both in sense ‘bodily organ, instrument’), and compare also forms at orgle n. Compare organum n.1, organon n., orgue n.Latin organum was apparently borrowed into Old English as two separate words with distinct senses: organe (a weak feminine noun; compare the Germanic forms listed above) in sense 1, and organ (a strong masculine noun) in sense 4; these two words merged in Middle English. Alongside the usual plural form of Old English organe : organan , the form organa , directly from the Latin plural, is also occasionally attested (compare quot. OE1 at sense 1). With use in the plural in sense ‘musical instrument consisting of a number of pipes’ (see sense 2a(a)) compare post-classical Latin (plural) organa (Du Cange), Old French (plural) orgenes (12th cent.), Spanish (plural) organos (13th cent.), Catalan (plural) †orguens (1389), all similarly used, apparently to express the composite character of the instrument (compare classical Latin organum in sense ‘organ pipe’).
I. Senses relating to musical instruments.
†1. Any of various ancient musical, esp. wind, instruments. Chiefly in translations of, or allusions to, Scripture. See also mouth organ n. 1a. Obsolete. [Augustine (c400), on Psalm 56, says organa dicuntur omnia instrumenta musicorum; non solum illud organum dicitur, quod grande est et inflatur follibus; sed quidquid aptatur ad cantilenam, et corporeum est, quo instrumento utitur qui cantat, organum dicitur: ‘All musical instruments are called organa. Not alone is that called organum, which is large and inflated by bellows, but whatever is fitted to accompany singing, and is corporeal, which he who sings uses as an instrument, is called organum.’ To the same effect Isidore Origines 2. 20.]
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organeOE
orgleeOE
gleea1225
instrumentc1300
organum1342
organyc1400
musicala1450
musical instrument?c1450
organ1772
dulcimer1890
axe1955
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > part in harmony or counterpoint > other parts
counter-notec1380
organa1382
pricksong1495
counterpoint1530
cant organ?1553
diapason1594
counter-tune1605
contrapart1660
counterpart1706
free part1782
organum1782
sub-bass1839
counter-melody1931
countersubject1947
infra-bass1958
voice1967
eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) cl. 4 Laudate eum in chordis et organo : hergað hine in strengum & organan.
OE tr. Apollonius of Tyre (1958) xlix. 38 Ða organa wæron getogene and þa biman geblawene.
OE Paris Psalter (1932) cxxxvi. 2 On salig we sarige swiðe gelome ure organan up ahengan.
c1175 ( Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) iv. 21 Iubal..wæs fæder hea[r]pera & þæra þe organan macodan [OE Claud. hearpera & organystra].
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) cl. 4 (MED) Herieþ hym in cordes and organ.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Job xxi. 12 Þei..ioȝen at þe soun of þe orgne.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 21310 Þe thrid has harp, þe firth organ.
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) cxxxvi. 2 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 265 (MED) In selihes in mide ofe ite Our organes [L. organa] henge we yhite.
a1425 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Laud) (1884) 459 In the wylghis in þe myddis of hit we hang vp our orgoyns.
a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 58 (MED) He mowe delyt hym wyth Instrumentz and maners of Organes whanne he ys ennoyed.
1539 Bible (Great) Gen. iv. 21 Iubal, which was the father of such as handle harpe & organe.
c1560 (a1500) Squyr Lowe Degre (Copland) 1072 With rote, ribible and clokarde, With pypes, organs and bumbarde.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 356 Wil you play vpon this pipe?.. There is much musique excellent voyce in this little organ.
1611 Bible (King James) Psalms cl. 4 Praise him with stringed instruments and organs . View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 596 The Harp..the solemn Pipe, And Dulcimer, all Organs of sweet stop. View more context for this quotation
1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 444 Ugab, Huggab, Agub, the first wind instrument mentioned in the bible, rendered organ in the authorized version.
2. spec.
a. A musical instrument (usually large) consisting of a number of pipes, supplied with compressed air, sounded by keys, which on being pressed down let air into the pipes by opening valves. Cf. chamber organ n. at chamber n. Compounds 4. Also figurative.There are three essential parts, common to any pipe organ from the earliest hydraulic organs (&c.3rd cent. b.c.) to the modern electric organ: a device for raising the air, the chest with the pipes, and a mechanism for admitting the air into the pipes. The instrument evolved in complexity, esp. with the introduction (from the 15th cent.) of sets of stops (see stop n.2 14a) having various qualities of tone.Organs do not seem to have been used as a church instrument in the Byzantine Empire, but from the late 9th and early 10th centuries organs originally reintroduced into the West from Byzantium became closely associated with church services and music. By the end of the 9th cent. church organs were being constructed in England, although the word is not attested in Old English in this sense. For a survey of the history of the organ, see New Grove Dict. Musical Instruments (1984) II. 838–916.
(a) In plural with singular sense. Now English regional (eastern) and rare.Cf. the bagpipes (see bagpipe n. 1b).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun]
organc1380
a pair (also set) of organs1422
box of whistles1678
kist o' whistles1772
set1795
whistle-kist1843
pipe organ1862
melodica1890
c1380 G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale 134 And whil the organs [v.rr. Organes, orgens, Orgenes, Orgnes; Orgels, Orgles] maden melodie, To god allone in herte thus song she.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 11034 Þo þat couþe organes [a1450 Lamb. orgnes] blowe [Fr. ogres soner].
1460 Ayr Burgh Court Bks. 160 The haile comite has coft..viii daker of hidis..to the organis.
1488 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 17 Payd to Thomas Rogg for pleyng at orgons iijs iiijd.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cl. 4 Orgyns, that is made as a toure, of sere whistils.
a1500 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 448 Thyn orgons so hihe be-gynne to syng thi messe.
1536–7 in G. S. Pryde Ayr Burgh Accts. (1937) 20 For candill to the organis in wynter at the evinsangis.
c1591 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 267 The long stall in the South porche before the Orgaines.
1601 F. Godwin Catal. Bishops of Eng. 452 He..could not only sing, but play very well vpon the organs.
1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 68 No more skill..than a Pig playing upon the Organs.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 265 Many Dissolute and Prophane People, went into the Abbey at Westminster, and would have pull'd down the Organs.
1713 A. Pope Ode Musick 2 The deep, majestick, solemn Organs blow.
1746 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) II. 21 Then the organs began to play amain..The curate endeavoured to stop them.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 80 Come, play upon the organs!
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 205 Theer wur o'd John Goadby, him as had use to plee o' the horgins.
(b) In singular (and in plural with plural sense).
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c1390 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 4041 His voys was murier than the myrie orgon [v.r. organe], On massedayes that in the chirche gon.
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 261 To synge or to play [on þe] Organ [?c1475 BL Add. 15562 organnes], Organizare.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) 504 in Shorter Poems (2003) 38 Monycord, orgain, tympane and symbell.
1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 20 Harp, Lut, Organe, Symbal and Symphioun Makand thair mirth all into gude ordour.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 33 The first Organ which was ever seen in the West of Europe, was, what was sent Anno 757 from Constantine the Grecian Emperor, to Pipin King of France.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 708 As in an Organ from one blast of wind To many a row of Pipes the sound-board breaths. View more context for this quotation
1687 J. Dryden Song St. Cecilia's Day vi What human Voice can reach The sacred Organs praise?
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. at Cabinet Organ A small portable Organ.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. III. 162 It is furnished with two fine organs, erected opposite to each other.
1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity II. viii. 123 Marinus Sanutus introduced organs into churches.
1802 in G. F. Dow Holyoke Diaries (1911) 142 We went to Doct Oliver's to hear the Organ.
1844 Zoologist 2 727 The croaking..being so loud and shrill, as to have obtained for these frogs the name of ‘Cambridgeshire nightingales’, and ‘Whaddon organs’!
1857 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. (ed. 3) I. vi. 353 Ctesibius..is said to have invented a..hydraulic organ.
1907 St. Nicholas May 637/1 Then, after a pause, they heard a fine organ.
1955 R. S. Thomas Song at Year's Turning 82 If only the organ had kept in time.
1984 J. Morris Journeys (1985) 130 Stockholm's cathedral is..all cherubs, tassels, trumpets, garlands, salads, pointed draperies and mighty gilded organ.
†b. a pair (also set) of organs: an organ. Obsolete.Cf. pair of bagpipes, pair of virginals: see pair n.1 6.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun]
organc1380
a pair (also set) of organs1422
box of whistles1678
kist o' whistles1772
set1795
whistle-kist1843
pipe organ1862
melodica1890
1422–3 in R. E. G. Kirk Acct. Abingdon Abbey (1892) 98 (MED) j par organes.
1463 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 158 For the caryinge off a payre off organs..iijs. iiij d.
1501 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 84 I wyll ther be bougth on peyr of orgonys to the chyrche of Wulpett.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 183 Vnes orgues, a payre of organs, an instrument of musyke.
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 95 Al the pipes and flutes of a paire of Organs being set together.
1678 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 407 The church..containing a good set of organs before the warr time.
1686 London Gaz. No. 2141/4 Two pair of very fair Organs to be sold..One pair of Seven Stops, the other Four.
1719 Life J. Sharp 15 It is like he may now..gift them to some landart church, to save the expenses of a pair of organs.
c. Any of a number of separate groups of sets or stops, each with its own keyboard, which make up an organ.For the more established compounds, as choir, echo, solo, swell organ, etc.: see the first element.
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organ1606
1606 Acct.-bk. King's Coll. Chapel, Cambr. in Ecclesiologist (1859) Dec. 399 Item payd to Knockle the Limber for laying the sayd gould &ce upon the pypes, Armes & scutchins of the Chayre Organ iiij li.
1661 Acct.-bk. King's Coll. Chapel, Cambr. in Ecclesiologist (1859) Dec. 395 Lanceloto Pease pro le Chaire organ £200.
1876 J. Hiles Catech. Organ (1878) i. 3 The fourth manual, the Solo Organ, contains pipes of a particular species, on a high pressure of wind and voiced specially for Solo playing.
1898 J. Stainer Stainer & Barrett's Dict. Musical Terms (rev. ed.) 337/2 A complete organ may be said to consist of five parts: choir organ, great organ, swell organ, solo organ, and pedal organ.
1988 Organbuilder May 14/1 Double pallets are provided throughout the Great organ compass..and are also fitted for the bottom octave of the swell.
d. A kind of organ in which the sound is produced by freely vibrating metal reeds rather than by reed pipes; a harmonium; a reed organ. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > types of organ > [noun] > reed-organ
cottage organ1836
aeoline1840
melodeon1844
melodium1846
harmonium1847
reed organ1851
organ-harmonium1864
American organ1869
harmonicon1876
harmonica1880
organ1880
vocalion1882
squeeze-box1909
melodicon1938
1880 A. J. Hipkins in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 667 He was induced to secure to himself the sole privilege of using the name Harmonium in France, thus forcing other makers to use the name Organ, and thus to add another stone to the cairn of confusion in musical instrument nomenclature.
1900 C. C. Munn Uncle Terry 12 A small cottage organ graced the platform, upon which an antique desk did duty as pulpit.
e. An electronic keyboard instrument, capable of producing sounds similar to those of a traditional organ. Cf. Hammond organ n., Wurlitzer n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > types of organ > [noun] > electric or electronic organ
organ1885
Hammond organ1935
Orgatron1935
Novachord1939
clavioline1952
1885 Electr. Engineer Mar. 149/1 We are enabled to imagine in our houses..electric pianos and organs.
1930 Electronics Dec. 435 Electronic Musical Instruments... Examples of such instruments are the electronic organ of M. Coupleaux of Paris.
1957 A. R. Manvell & J. Huntley Technique Film Music iv. 180 The lighting cameraman may be concerned with a range of problems, from the over-polished console of an electric organ to the number of arcs required to illuminate the Royal Albert Hall.
1966 Melody Maker 7 May 13/1 The Faces storm into this new one with powerful guitar, and riffing organ.
1991 New Musical Express 7 Dec. 31/2 Those into the muted drawbar organ sound currently favoured by everyone from the Basement Boys to PWL can hardly fail to adore Yohan Square's ‘Love of Live’.
3. Other musical instruments.
a. With distinguishing word. Any of various instruments resembling an organ in sound or construction. See also barrel organ n., hand organ n., mouth organ n. 1b.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > [noun]
organeOE
orgleeOE
gleea1225
instrumentc1300
organum1342
organyc1400
musicala1450
musical instrument?c1450
organ1772
dulcimer1890
axe1955
1772 A. Walker Brit. Patent 1020 (1856) 2 The Celestina..is also made to be played by a pricked barrel, as the hand or barrel organ.
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1248 A band..consisted of a double drum, a Dutch organ, the tambourine.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 122/2 The archetype of the accordion is the cheng.., or Chinese organ, between which and the harmonium it forms a connecting link, structurally.
b. = barrel organ n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > musical box > [noun] > barrel-organ
hand organ1721
street organ1769
barrel organ1772
music box1773
grinding-organ1801
panharmonicon1811
flute-organ1828
orchestrino1838
orchestrion1838
organ1841
piano organ1842
autophone1850
grind-organ1888
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xviii. 192 ‘You must be more careful Sir’ said Jerry, walking coolly to the chair where he had placed the organ, and setting the stop.
1897 F. Moss Amer. Metropolis III. viii. 113 Boys and girls together, we would sing and waltz, While the ‘Ginnie’ played the organ on the sidewalks of New York.
1930 J. S. Lichfield Far-north Memories 172 Organ-grinder—Small lizard, with a long, whip-like tail. Has a habit of sitting erect, and ‘grinding the organ’ with a paw.
1996 World's Fair 11 Oct. 14/1 Among the organs was Peter Trueman's recently completed 31-note fair/street organ.
†II. Senses relating to vocal music.
4. A melody, a song; spec. = organum n.1 4. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > organum
organeOE
organ songc1450
organum1782
diaphony1834
triphony1899
eOE Prose Dialogue of Solomon & Saturn II (2009) 76 Ðæs halgan cantices se gyldena organ he hie ealle oferhleoðrað.
eOE Metrical Dialogue of Solomon & Saturn (Corpus Cambr. 422) i. 53 Hulic is se organ [i.e. the paternoster] ingemyndum to begonganne ðam ðe his gast wile meltan wið morðre?
OE Homily (Corpus Cambr. 201) in H. Sauer Theodulfi Capitula in Eng. (1978) 416 Þær is aa singalic organa sweg, þe from englum and heahenglum..bið sungen.
?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 77 (MED) Bi þer grete criyng of song, as deschaunt, countre note & orgene, þei ben lettid fro studynge & prechynge of þe gospel.
?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 91 Wiþ knackynge of newe song, as orgen or deschant.
III. A means, instrument, or device.
5.
a. A means of action or operation, an instrument; (now) esp. a person, body of people, or thing by which some purpose is carried out or some function is performed.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means
keyOE
toolc1000
wherewithc1230
ministerc1380
meanc1390
instrumenta1425
organ?a1425
mesne1447
moyen1449
handlec1450
hackneya1500
receipta1500
operative1526
ingine1531
appliance1555
agent1579
matter1580
mids1581
wedge1581
wherewithal1583
shoeing-horn1587
engine1589
instrumental1598
Roaring Meg1598
procurement1601
organy1605
vehicle1615
vehiculuma1617
executioner1646
facility1652
operatory1660
instrumentality1663
expedient1665
agency1684
bladea1713
mechanic1924
mechanism1924
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 98v And if þay may not conueniently wiþ her handez extend or strecch þe membre ybroken þat þai put about snarez or organez [?c1425 Paris instrumentis; Fr. instrumens; L. organa], i. instrumentez..I trowe þat þo organez be tournez of tree with pilers, as seiþ Albucasis, or made to þe maner of spryngaldez.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxiijv An enchanteresse, an orgayne of the deuill, sent from Sathan.
1568 G. Buchanan Indictm. Mary Queen of Scots (1923) 33 The Quene..wes the verray instrument, chieff organe and causer of that unnaturall crueltie.
1602 W. Basse Sword & Buckler xi. sig. B2 [Serving-men are] Organs of profit vpon imputation, Outcasts of losse, on euery small occasion.
1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. ii. 28 God knoweth all Names, Notions, Propositions and Syllogisms, with their modes; as they are the measures, organs or actings of Humane Understandings.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 355 Through that public organ of report He hails the clergy.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. ix. 529 James..afraid that his enemies might get this organ of his will [sc. the great seal] into their hands.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. I. ix. 116 The functions which these officials discharge belong in America to the State governments or to the organs of local governments.
1920 H. J. Laski Polit. Thought in Eng. ii. 50 A common political superior there doubtless must be; but government is an organ to which omnipotence is wanting.
1989 Accountancy June 16/4 Enforcement has to be by an organ of government, preferably the Secretary of State.
†b. A mental or spiritual faculty regarded as an instrument of the mind or soul. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > [noun] > power or faculty
wita1000
ability1587
faculty1588
organ1656
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 58 That is intellect; this the naturall Organ accommodated for judgement.
1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend (new ed.) I. iii. 150 The spirit of a rational freedom diffused and become national..in its most precious organ, the jury.
1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (1874) iii. 298 The conscience is not the law itself, it is merely the organ which makes it known to us—the eye that looks to it.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxxviii. 374 Faith,—Belief,—is the organ by which we apprehend what is beyond our knowledge.
c. A means or medium of communication, or of expression of opinion; esp. a periodical which serves as the mouthpiece of a particular political party, cause, movement, etc.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > [noun] > as medium of communication
organ1788
media1923
print media1955
1788 T. Reid Aristotle's Logic iv §3. 76 The silly and uninstructive reasonings..brought forth by this grand organ of science.
1806 M. Cutler Jrnl. 11 Oct. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 336 I am now, in compliance with the order of this ecclesiastical council, and as their organ, to address you the solemn charge.
1853 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 127 1177 A newspaper which was generally considered throughout India to be the organ of the Government.
1882 Athenæum 11 Mar. 309/1 The various branches of natural science..have their special organs, by means of which their votaries can communicate with one another.
1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xviii. 245 Well, that smell got inter ther papers. Ther evenin' organ was quite excited erbout it.
1948 T. Heggen Mister Roberts vi. 80 He had placed himself on the mailing list of twelve Socialist organs.
1993 New Yorker 20 Sept. 128/3 Wired is the official organ of the digital generation.
6. Any of various mechanical devices, esp. a light mobile artillery piece, comprising a number of gun barrels mounted on a wheeled carriage, and arranged so as to discharge simultaneously. Cf. orgue n. 2. Now historical and rare.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > firearm resembling organ-pipes
organ gun?1470
organ1495
organ pipe1539
1495 in H. L. Blackmore Armouries of Tower of London (1976) I. 258 Gonnes callid Organys.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. xciv And shot..great gonnes..The citezens of Mauns muche merueilyng at these newe orgaynes.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 1033 We tooke thirteene field pieces, whereof foure were greater than the rest; which they called organes.
1729 G. Shelvocke, Jr. tr. K. Siemienowicz Great Art Artillery v. 312 Cannons, Mortars, Petards &c. might be more properly called Organs than Machines.
?1790 in H. Compton Particular Acct. European Mil. Adventures Hindustan (1893) iv. 61 A weapon called an Organ, which is composed of about thirty-six gun barrels so joined as to fire at once.
1978 A. North & I. Hogg Guns & Gunsmiths i. vii. 122 The earliest multi-barrelled guns are known as ribaudequins or organs, due to their similarity to organ pipes.
IV. Biological uses.
7.
a. A part of an animal or plant body that serves a particular physiological function (as the heart, liver, etc.). Also with of (as in organ of sense, etc.).
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the world > life > biology > organism > organ or part of organism > [noun]
organ?a1425
organical part1659
differentiator1921
the world > life > the body > system > [noun] > organ
instrumenta1398
organ?a1425
instrumental?1541
organon1583
organum1614
corpus1706
apparatus1718
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 16 (MED) Þe stomac or þe wombe is þe organ [Fr. l'organe ou l'instrument] of þe first digestion.
a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 2480 Alle þe remanent of my body..Excepte þe organys of þe lemys þe whyche gouernede my wyttus fyue.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 132/1 The bodye, kepyng yet stil his shappe & his organis not much perished.
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man viii. f. 108 The hand, beyng..the organ of organes, and an organ before all other organs.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. i. 55 Hath not a Iewe hands, organs, dementions, sences, affections, passions.
1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iv. xxv. 291 The parts of our Body by which we perceive any thing, are those we commonly call the Organs of Sense.
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 375 That Configuration which there is in the Organs of speech upon the framing of several Letters.
1759 B. Stillingfleet tr. I. Biberg Oeconomy Nature in Misc. Tracts Nat. Hist. 49 The organs of generation are contained in the flower.
1774 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 486 Two branches, which pass to the electric organ through the gills.
1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect Introd. ii. 61 The organ of mind is not the brain by itself; it is the brain, nerves, muscles, and organs of sense.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 221 In the centre of each flower is found a hollow organ, the pistil.
1932 A. Huxley Brave New World i. 15 The first organ affected was the brain.
1985 Sci. Amer. June 34/1 The skin is only a few millimeters thick, but it is the body's largest organ.
b. Anatomy and Zoology. Any of various organs named after their discoverers. organ of Giraldès n. [ < organ n.1 + of prep. + the name of J. A. Giraldès (1808–75), Portuguese surgeon and anatomist] now historical the paradidymis. organ of Rosenmüller n. [ < organ n.1 + of prep. + the name of J. C. Rosenmüller (1771–1820), German surgeon and anatomist] now historical the epoophoron.See also Bojanus n., Corti n., Jacobson's organ n. at Jacobson n., Ribaga n.
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the world > life > the body > system > [noun] > organ > named after discoverer of specific structure
organ1858
1858 A. Farre in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 593/2 The parovarium. Syn. Corpus Conicum. Neben-Eierstock. Organ of Rosenmüller.
1867 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 7) II. 973 Organ of Giraldès.–This is a minute structure situated in the front of the cord.
1867 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 7) II. 992 The parovarium (Kobelt), or Organ of Rosenmüller, is a structure which can usually be brought plainly into view by holding against the light the fold of peritoneum between the ovary and Fallopian tube.
1887 in A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. V. 520/2 The parovarium (Syn., paroöphoron, epoöphoron, corpus pampiniforme (Wrisberg), organ of Rosenmüller) in the human female, is a structure having a vertical diameter of 15 to 25 mm.
1897 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Rosenmüller, organ of, the Parovarium.
1937 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 228 148 The paradidymis, or organ of Giraldés,..is generally agreed to be homologous with the paroöphoron.
1957 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 179/2 The paroöphoron, like the organ of Giraldès in the male, is probably formed from some separate tubes [of the Wolffian duct].
†8. The human organs of speech; the human voice. Cf. instrument n. 1a, 4, pipe n.1 2a. Obsolete.Overlapping with branch I.
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the world > life > the body > speech organs > [noun]
organa1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. iv. 33 Thy small pipe Is as the maidens organ, shrill, and sound. View more context for this quotation
1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. vii. 102 Uttering cries..deeper than was in the power of any human organ.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. i. 226 The boy's organ vibrates more rapidly than the man's.
1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth III. iv. 51 A little muttering was heard outside; Denys's rough organ and a woman's soft and mellow voice.
9. In phrenology: a superficial region of the brain or a bump on the cranium held to be the site of a particular mental faculty or tendency. Now historical.
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > as (supposed) seat of faculty
cella1393
cellulea1400
emporium1683
organ1806
brain centre1844
1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 210 His organ for thieving is very visible; he has likewise the organ of representation.
1815 J. G. Spurzheim Physiognom. Syst. (ed. 2) 364 xxiv Organ of locality.
1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 17 504 Abnormal development of the organ of inhabitativeness.
1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 10 Mar. 462/1 Such vigilant cherub would..have that gallant officer's organ of destructiveness out of his head.
1995 Neurosurgery 37 790 In the last decade of the 18th century, Franz Joseph Gall of Vienna invented a combination of physiognomy and brain localization that he originally called ‘craniology’ (the science of the head) and later called ‘organology’ (the science of the organs of the brain).
10. euphemistic or colloquial. More fully male organ. The penis. Cf. member n. 1a.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis
weapona1000
tarsec1000
pintleOE
cock?c1335
pillicock?c1335
yard1379
arrowa1382
looma1400
vergea1400
instrumentc1405
fidcocka1475
privya1500
virile member (or yard)?1541
prickc1555
tool1563
pillock1568
penis1578
codpiece1584
needle1592
bauble1593
dildo1597
nag1598
virility1598
ferret1599
rubigo?a1600
Jack1604
mentula1605
virge1608
prependent1610
flute1611
other thing1628
engine1634
manhood1640
cod1650
quillity1653
rammer1653
runnion1655
pego1663
sex1664
propagator1670
membrum virile1672
nervea1680
whore-pipe1684
Roger1689
pudding1693
handle?1731
machine1749
shaft1772
jock1790
poker1811
dickyc1815
Johnny?1833
organ1833
intromittent apparatus1836
root1846
Johnson1863
Peter1870
John Henry1874
dickc1890
dingusc1890
John Thomasc1890
old fellowc1890
Aaron's rod1891
dingle-dangle1893
middle leg1896
mole1896
pisser1896
micky1898
baby-maker1902
old man1902
pecker1902
pizzle1902
willy1905
ding-dong1906
mickey1909
pencil1916
dingbatc1920
plonkerc1920
Johna1922
whangera1922
knob1922
tube1922
ding1926
pee-pee1927
prong1927
pud1927
hose1928
whang1928
dong1930
putz1934
porkc1935
wiener1935
weenie1939
length1949
tadger1949
winkle1951
dinger1953
winky1954
dork1961
virilia1962
rig1964
wee-wee1964
Percy1965
meat tool1966
chopper1967
schlong1967
swipe1967
chode1968
trouser snake1968
ding-a-ling1969
dipstick1970
tonk1970
noonies1972
salami1977
monkey1978
langer1983
wanker1987
1833 R. Dunglison Dict. Med Sci. at Penis Membrum virile,..male organ.
1865 S. Pancoast Ladies' Med. Guide 584 The canal leading to the womb, penetrated by the male organ in the act of copulation.
1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 503/1 Pill,..the male organ, the penis.
1967 M. Campbell Lord dismiss Us (1968) iv. 19 He had the largest organ that anyone had ever seen. It was a truncheon.
1987 Fiction Mag. June 4/3 Ah, bliss was it..to have your eager organ, rigid pole, no, your Excalibur withdraw and plunge again into another delirious, mutual climax.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a. (In sense 2.)
organ bench n.
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1870 F. R. Ritter tr. R. Schumann Music & Musicians 414 If you long to sit on the organ-bench, try your little fingers, and wonder at this great musical power.
1991 F. Lentricchia Introducing Don Delillo 28 Sandow was sitting on the edge of the organ bench, silent.
organ blast n.
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vii. i. 404 The rushing of a mighty organ-blast.
1919 G. White Gairloch in Poems 39 Organ-blast from God's own Hand, How it deafeneth, roareth.
1997 H. T. Kirby Philos. Novelist 76 The indented marginal summaries..are unusually helpful in picking out the themes, the presence of which is sometimes hard to distinguish amid the grandeur of Santayana's organ blast.
organ case n.
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1601 in J. C. Cox Churchwardens' Accts. (1913) xv. 201 Organ case with some pypes.
1850 Littell's Living Age 7 Sept. 476/1 All that appears on the outside of the organ-case which differs from other organs is a row of pedals.
1988 Organbuilder May 4/1 An interesting project was the restoration of a mutilated organ case and the building within it of a new organ in the spirit of the late 18th Century.
organ-harmony n.
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1842 Ld. Tennyson Sir Galahad vii, in Poems (new ed.) II. 178 A rolling organ-harmony Swells up.
organ key n.
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1578 W. Hunnis Hyue Full of Hunnye iv. 8 Of him sprang they that wel could pleye, Upon the Harpe and Organ keye.
1805 G. Huddesford Les Champignons du Diable 5 When fingers of Hook, Cramer, Crotch, On organ-keys play at hop-scotch.
1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion ii. i. 54 Cecilia, sitting at her organ keys.
1992 F. McLynn Hearts of Darkness ii. viii. 180 In the United States ivory was particularly favoured for piano and organ keys and especially for billiard and bagatelle balls.
organ music n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > music on specific instrument > [noun] > keyboard music > on organ
voluntary1712
organ music1834
organry1850
pedal entry1914
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. vii, in Fraser's Mag. July 83/1 Listen, and for organ-music thou wilt ever, as of old, hear the Morning Stars sing together.
1992 Classic CD 25 May 37/2 Bach's organ music covers a variety of lengths and styles.
organ peal n.
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1747 T. Warton Pleasures of Melancholy 16 The many-sounding organ peals on high.
1893 Cent. Mag. Mar. 718/2 Even the occasional organ-peal that sometimes sounds through the cloister proper dies out before reaching here.
1998 Fort Worth (Texas) Star Telegram 28 May 4 The pageantry featured the distinct, biting aroma of incense, majestic organ peals and white-gloved acolytes.
organ prelude n.
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1865 tr. L. Spohr Autobiogr. (1969) II. 201 The subsequent adagio represents a scene in the catholic royal-chapel at Dresden, which begins with an organ-prelude.
1994 M. Musgrave Music of Brahms 245 In turning to the form of organ prelude on the chorale Brahms was returning to a form of his youth.
organ recital n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > concert > types of
Philharmonic concert1740
benefit-concert1759
chamber concert1760
recital1762
Dutch concert1774
concert performance1777
philharmonica1796
musical soirée1821
sacred concert1832
soirée musicale1836
promenade concert1839
pianoforte recital1840
ballad concert1855
piano recital1855
Monday pop1862
Pop1862
promenade1864
popular1865
Schubertiad1869
recitative1873
organ recital1877
pop concert1880
smoker1887
smoke concert1888
café concert1891
prom1902
smoke-ho1918
smoking-concert1934
hootenanny1940
opry1940
Liederabend1958
1877 H. D. Rawnsley in Bk. Bristol Sonnets 110 (title) Saturday organ recital in the Colston Hall.
1991 Music & Lett. 72 107 His organ recitals, which were largely improvised, drew huge crowds.
organ seat n.
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1866 Times 8 Oct. 9/5 Mr. Postel was with us and claimed to take the organ seat.
2002 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 2 Nov. 19 One of the Chapter's joint Chaplains, was installed in the organ seat playing for the service.
organ voice n.
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1863 Ld. Tennyson Milton in Cornhill Mag. Dec. 707 God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 17 Mar. 2/1 The great organ-voice of many waters sounding in mellowed thunderousness.
2003 Help! PSR-520 Novice—Question about Chords in rec.music.makers.synth (Usenet newsgroup) 26 July Unfortunately, the chord is always the same annoyingly smarmy organ voice and I would like to play the chords in a piano voice instead of this organ voice.
b. (In sense 7.)
organ donor n.
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1965 Lancet 26 June 1359 (title) Comparison of lymphocyte-transfer test and white-blood-cell grouping for organ donor selection.
1994 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 5 Oct. a12/1 Gibbs is encouraged that her work as a ‘minority requester’ is increasing the number of black organ donors.
organ regeneration n.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth > formation or regeneration of parts
regeneration?a1425
organogeny1844
morphosis1857
organogenesis1865
angiogenesis1888
recrescence1890
neurotization1892
heteromorphosis1894
homoeosis1894
holomorphosis1901
homomorphosis1901
organ regeneration1923
neovascularization1952
1923 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 10 370 From these studies, organ regeneration is dependent upon the cambial and callus tissues.
1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. ix. 174 Among reptilia, lizards are the only animals which possess even the power of organ-regeneration.
1972 L. V. Polezhaev Organ Regeneration in Animals i. 3 It is conventional to divide all animals into..those which are capable of organ regeneration and those which are not.
1997 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 94 12249/1 Perhaps the most intriguing..research on this topic came from scientists studying organ regeneration in rodents.
organ transplant n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > transplanting and grafting operations > [noun] > organ transplantation
organ transplantation1925
organ transplant1932
1932 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 59 74 The much more successful, though frequently bizarre, development of tissue or organ transplants.
1964 Transplantation 45 547 (title) Different effects of antigen pretreatment on allogeneic skin and organ transplants.
1968 Listener 18 July 90/2 Idea-transplants are as difficult as organ-transplants: in both cases human beings have a built-in mechanism for rejection.
1991 Time 25 Nov. 10/2 But nothing like the improvements that are now coming—genetic engineering, organ transplants without fear of rejection.
organ transplantation n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > transplanting and grafting operations > [noun] > organ transplantation
organ transplantation1925
organ transplant1932
1925 Sci. Monthly June 651 Organ transplantation..involves such prolonged delicate technic that it is rarely attempted.
1935 N. P. Sherwood Immunol. xii. 270 In discussing the incompatibility of species not closely related, Loeb mentions the rigid specificity requirements for successful skin grafting or organ transplantation.
C2.
† organ albumin n. Obsolete rare albumin occurring in tissues of the body (as distinguished from serum albumin).Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Organ albumin, the albumin which constitutes part of a tissue in contradistinction from the circulating albumin of the fluids.
organ bank n. a place where organs for transplantation are stored.
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1964 Cryobiol. 1 158/1 The successful establishment of organ banks for human homotransplantation procedures.
1993 Sci. Amer. Mar. (France Suppl.) 12/2 Recombination of human skin is done by cultivation epidermal donor cells on de-epidermized and sterilized dermis supplied by an organ bank.
organ-beater n. [compare post-classical Latin pulsans organa organist (1535 in a British source), German Orgelschläger (1843 in the passage translated in quot. 1852)] a person who plays a medieval organ (an instrument with large keys, struck with the fist).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > keyboard player > [noun] > organist > players of specific types of organ
organ-beater1852
calliopist1857
theatre organist1932
1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 17 Their [sc. the keys'] mechanism was so clumsy and heavy, that the player had to beat them down about one foot deep with his fists,—whence the expression organ-beater.
1877 E. J. Hopkins & E. F. Rimbault Organ 33 They [sc. the keys] were struck down by the fist of the player..whence..arose the expression organ-beater.
1926 C. G. Hamilton Epochs Musical Progress 52 Since each one was from four to six inches wide, and consequently had to be struck by the organist's clenched fist—whence he was called ‘organ beater’.
organ bird n. any of certain birds with a loud, melodious song: (a) either of two Australian birds of the family Cracticidae, the pied butcher-bird, Cracticus nigrogularis, and the Australian magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen; (b) a reddish-orange and brown wren of Central and South America, Cyphorhinus aradus.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Troglodytidae > genus Cyphorhinus
organ bird1847
flute-player1875
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Cracticidae > gymnorhina tibicen
magpie1792
piping crow1832
organ bird1847
flute-bird1862
bush-magpie1890
maggie1901
1847 J. Gould Birds Austral. (1848) II. Pl. 48 It pours forth a succession of notes..much resembling..a hand-organ out of tune..which has obtained for it the colonial name of the Organ-Bird.
1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons II. vi. 400 I frequently heard..the ‘realejo’ or organ bird..the most remarkable songster, by far, of the Amazonian forests.
1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. II 404 Tasmania has..the Organ-bird of the colonists, G. hyperleuca,..or organica.
1904 W. H. Hudson Green Mansions viii. 140 I hear..the organ-bird singing far, far away in the shadows of the trees.
1985 Austral. Nat. Hist. Spring 427 Also known as the Organ Bird, the Pied Butcherbird has an extraordinary variety of flute-like calls.
organ-blower n. a person who works the bellows of an organ; (also) a mechanical device for the same purpose.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > keyboard player > [noun] > organist > worker of bellows
organ-blower?a1450
bellows-blower?1608
bellows-treader1876
?a1450 in Camden Misc. (1924) XIII. 6 (MED) Þe orgon blower, ij d.
1719 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 214 Chamber for ye Organ-blower.
a1894 O. W. Holmes Organ-blower in Compl. Poet. Wks. (1912) 187 Devoutest of my Sunday friends, The patient Organ-blower bends.
1980 Church Times 28 Mar. 16/4 Mr. Hinch..is celebrating seventy years as organ-blower and ringer at the church.
organ builder n. a person who builds or constructs organs.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > making or fitting instruments > [noun] > instrument makers or fitters > organ builder or fitter
organ maker?1431
organer1442
organ-man1497
organist1512
organ builder1725
voicer1879
1725 London Gaz. No. 6347/3 Renatus Harris, of London, Organ-Builder.
1892 J. C. R. Dorr in Poems 186 (title) The legend of the organ-builder.
1990 Gramophone May 1932/2 As early as 1794 Haydn approved payment to the organ builder for quilling and tuning the harpsicord on four occasions.
organ-building n. the construction of organs.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > making or fitting instruments > [noun] > organ
organ-building1756
voicing1821
1756 N.-Y. Mercury 15 Mar. 3/2 (advt.) Who continues the Business of Organ building, by whom Gentlemen and Ladies, may be furnished with that noble Instrument.
1859 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem II. lxxxviii. 60 I have, as you know, a weakness for Organ-building.
1988 Organbuilder May 1/2 One of the main growth areas in organ-building today appears to be the construction of house-organs.
organ cactus n. the saguaro cactus, Carnegiea gigantea.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > cactus and allies > [noun] > giant cactus
pitahaya1709
organ pipe1854
saguaro1856
organ cactus1869
1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil II. 329 A tall ‘Organ-Cactus,’ which is almost a tree.
1882 Cent. Mag. Mar. 644/1 The organ-cactus sends up from its main stalk long, prickly shoots, like organ-pipes, whose melodies are expressed in color instead of sound, as they chord with the deep blue sky, the yellow-climbing bill, and the breast of some hovering bird.
1947 Time 10 Mar. 18/2 The two Presidents rode between rows of organ cacti.
1986 P. Mora Borders 33 And when I die, plant zempasúchitl, flowers of the dead, and at my head plant organ cactus, green fleshy fingers sprouting, like in Oaxaca.
organ clock n. a clock which plays a small organ to mark the hours.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > other types of clock
watch-clock1592
German clock1598
quarter clocka1631
wheel-clock1671
table clocka1684
month clock1712
astronomical clock1719
musical clock1721
repeater1725
Tompion1727
pulling clock1733
regulator1735
eight-day clock1741
regulator clock1750
French clock1757
repetition clock1765
day clock1766
striker1778
chiming clock1789
cuckoo-clock1789
night clock1823
telltale1827
carriage clock1828
fly-clock1830
steeple clock1830
telltale clock1832
skeleton clock1842
telegraph clock1842
star clock1850
weight-clock1850
prison clock1853
crystal clock1854
pillar scroll top clock1860
sheep's-head clock1872
presentation clock1875
pillar clock1880
stop-clock1881
Waterbury1882
calendar-clock1884
ting-tang clock1884
birdcage clock1886
sheep's head1887
perpetual calendar1892
bracket clock1894
Act of Parliament clock1899
cartel clock1899
banjo-clock1903
master clock1904
lantern clock1913
time clock1919
evolutionary clock1922
lancet clock1922
atomic clock1927
quartz clock1934
clock radio1946
real-time clock1953
organ clock1956
molecular clock1974
travelling clock2014
1956 G. H. Baillie et al. Britten's Old Clocks & Watches (ed. 7) 155 Musical and organ-clocks became more popular during the last half of the eighteenth century.
1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches 126 Organ clock, clock playing a small pipe organ every three hours. Popular in the second half of the eighteenth century.
1973 Times 2 Jan. (Europe Suppl.) p. xii/2 The centrepiece of the show will be an organ clock by Charles Clay.
organ coral n. = organ-pipe coral n. at organ pipe n. Compounds.
ΚΠ
1764 G. Edwards Gleanings Nat. Hist. III. Index 346 The red organ Coral.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals iii. 163 In the organ coral (Tubipora), the skeleton has the character of that of the ordinary stone-corals, except that it is perforated by numerous minute canals.
2000 P04 & Hair Algea Probl. in rec.aquaria.marine.reefs (Usenet newsgroup) 19 Mar. 1 tiny piece of organ coral (I originally got a large but..about 90% of it was dead).
† organ current n. Obsolete rare the current circulating in the electric organ of a fish.
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the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > current of electrical organ
organ current1888
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electricity in living organisms > [noun] > current
organ current1888
blaze1902
1888 Philos. Trans. 1887 (Royal Soc.) B. 178 492 This organ-current is a feeble counterpart..of the electromotive changes which are present during the state of activity.
† organ-fish n. Obsolete the red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus.
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1870 Putnam's Mag. Aug. 177/1 The umber-fish..combine in producing..unearthly noises, from which circumstance they are also sometimes called organ-fish.
organ gallery n. a gallery in a church or other building, in which an organ is placed.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > place of performance or practice > [noun] > organ loft
organ loft1537
organ-sollar1540
organ gallery1741
1741 T. Boreman Hist. & Descr. St. Paul's II. ii. iii. 73 The openings north and south into the choir are ascending up three steps of black marble, by two iron folding doors, like those under the organ gallery.
1865 Harper's Mag. Apr. 612/2 A provisional arrangement for the choir was made in what may be called the organ-gallery.
1983 K. Crossley-Holland Poems from East Anglia (1997) 19 Frank is still up in the organ gallery, Puffing his cigar, blowing out another hymn.
organ gun n. now historical and rare a firearm having several charged chambers set side by side like organ pipes; cf. sense 6.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > firearm resembling organ-pipes
organ gun?1470
organ1495
organ pipe1539
?1470 Inventory in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 435 Item, iiij gonnes lying in ij stokkes callid orgon gonnes, wyth ix chambirs.
1883 Daily News 19 Sept. 3/3 After passing between two fine old ‘organ guns’, cannons with half-a-dozen or more barrels.
1931 V. Lefebure Sci. Disarmament 173 The organ gun was simply a sort of composite musket.
organ-harmonium n. a large harmonium with an elaborate construction or powerful tone, adapted to take the place of an organ.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > types of organ > [noun] > reed-organ
cottage organ1836
aeoline1840
melodeon1844
melodium1846
harmonium1847
reed organ1851
organ-harmonium1864
American organ1869
harmonicon1876
harmonica1880
organ1880
vocalion1882
squeeze-box1909
melodicon1938
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Organ-harmonium, an harmonium of large capacity and power, designed as an economical substitute for the organ.
1876 Internat. Exhib. Swedish Catal. 74/2 For conducting the singing with more surety, organ-harmoniums are to be had by the schools at moderate prices.
1994 I. Heskes Passport to Jewish Music 180 He introduced an organ-harmonium into religious services.
organ loft n. a loft or gallery in which an organ is placed.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > place of performance or practice > [noun] > organ loft
organ loft1537
organ-sollar1540
organ gallery1741
1537 in G. S. Pryde Ayr Burgh Accts. (1937) 20 For the making of ane lettroun to the organe left.
1779 Gubernatocial Coll. iv. i. 8 My Brother says you must turn all out of the organ-loft, but the Musicians.
1993 I. Maitland Cathedral (BNC) 337 I was forced to climb the choirscreen with its curtained box seats, up over the castellated organ loft, like some human fly.
organ maker n. a maker of organs, an organ-builder.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > making or fitting instruments > [noun] > instrument makers or fitters > organ builder or fitter
organ maker?1431
organer1442
organ-man1497
organist1512
organ builder1725
voicer1879
?1431 in F. Collins Reg. Freemen York (1897) I. 145 Johannes Gyse, organe maker.
1698 J. Wallis Let. 27 June in S. Pepys Private Corr. (1926) I. 155 Mr. Harris, an organ-maker,..was lately with me.
1993 Early Music (BNC) 21 439 As Arthur Ord-Hume has pointed out, organ makers would rather avoid fractions when laying out their calculations.
organ-man n. (a) a man employed in building or repairing an organ; (b) = organ-grinder n. 1.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > making or fitting instruments > [noun] > instrument makers or fitters > organ builder or fitter
organ maker?1431
organer1442
organ-man1497
organist1512
organ builder1725
voicer1879
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > other instrumentalists > [noun] > barrel-organ grinder
organ-grinder1792
organist1793
hand organist1805
barrel-organist1866
organ-man1868
1497 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 64 Item to the organman, xls.
1626 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 296 Imprimis geven to the organman for goinge to Durham about wood, xijd.
1850 Littell's Living Age 13 July 71/1 I..bought Pandean pipes, and started with an organ man as his mate.
1868 A. Helps Realmah (1869) xvii. 468 The polka which the organman was grinding out.
1925 Cent. Mag. Jan. 339/1 Against itinerant Italian organ-men he seethed with hatred.
organ meat n. an animal organ used as food; such meats collectively, offal.
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1958 H. I. Abelson Persuasion 35 The women were asked to raise their hands if they planned to serve an organ meat during the next week.
1994 Dog World Feb. 40/2 Organ meat in large quantities can also be inexpensive.
organ metal n. metal used for the pipes of an organ.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > types of metal generally > [noun] > metals for other specific uses
organ metal1578
string-metala1626
blade-metal1645
bearing metal1850
reglet1877
1578 in C. Kerry Hist. Church St. Lawrence, Reading (1883) 62 Solde to Rocke 37 li. of leade which was organ metall, viijs. vjd.
1994 New Scientist 28 May 49/2 Metal organ pipes are almost always made of ‘organ metal’: 30 per cent tin and 70 per cent lead.
organ note n. †(a) (in plural) = organum n.1 4 (obsolete); (b) a note produced or resembling that produced by an organ.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of organ
pealingc1475
organ notea1500
organ tone1820
bubble and squeak1960
chorus1961
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 243 The nyghtyngall shewyth his organe notis.
1866 ‘A. Cambridge’ Gloria in Excelsis in Hymns on Holy Communion 124 The thrilling organ-notes Whisper of heaven so sweet and solemnly.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 26 The organ-note of four engines hoisting the flying boat into the air.
2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 8 Aug. e. i. 10/4 There are lingering close-up reaction shots, accompanied by long organ notes.
organ piano n. a piano with a special device for producing a sustained tone as in the organ; also called melopiano.
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1853 G. Dodd in Househ. Words 28 May 298/2 Giacomo's smart little French-polished crimson-silked organ-piano.
1996 Steinway-Welte Organ Piano For Sale in rec.music.makers.piano (Usenet newsgroup) 22 Mar. Steinway..with Welte player action converted for use as an organ piano.
organ player n. a person who plays an organ, an organist.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > keyboard player > [noun] > organist
organisterc1330
organ player1435
organer1442
organster1525
organist1548
whistle-grinder1843
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 73 (MED) I fled syngars in kyrkis &..orgone playars [L. ludentes in organis] I desird not to here.
1544 in W. L. Nash Churchwardens' Acct. Bk. St. Giles, Reading (1851) 70 The Organ player for his yeres wages, iijli xs.
a1640 J. Ball Answer to Iohn Can (1642) i. 143 Squealing choristers, organ-players..vergerers.
1775 C. Burney Present State Music in Germany (ed. 2) II. 91 He [sc. Johann Frederic Agricola] is regarded as the best organ-player in Berlin.
a1894 R. B. W. Noel Music & Child in Coll. Poems (1902) 264 An organ-player comes rarely round To our lone moorland place.
1995 Muzik July 71/1 For the authentic sound of mid-nineties slackerdom, you should look no further than Keyboard Money Mark, the Beastie Boys' organ player.
† organ pleat n. Obsolete rare = organ pipe n. 2d.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > other
netOE
sheepskinc1175
tail1297
panec1300
slipc1440
cukera1500
peak1509
waist1590
bumbarrel1609
winglet1611
armhole1731
fullness1792
stride1807
bottom1820
patte1835
buckling1861
ventilator1870
tie-back1880
shield1884
organ pleat1886
outer1904
flarea1910
uplift1929
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 June 8/1 The train is slightly rounded, and falls in two organ pleats.
organ point n. Music = pedal point n. at pedal n.1 Compounds 2. [After German Orgelpunkt (1762 or earlier).]
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > movement of parts > sustained note
holding-note1776
point d'orgue?1779
pedal note1786
pedal point1814
pedal1854
organ point1865
sustention1883
sustain1951
1865 tr. L. Spohr Autobiogr. 144 To keep the expectation yet more alive for the entry of the Chorus, by means of a sort of Organ-Point [Ger. Orgelpunkt], formed a close at this interval.
1991 N. Schoffman There is no Truer Truth 58 A mechanical defect in the pedal clavier apparently prevents him from holding an organ point.
† organ proteid n. Obsolete rare protein occurring in tissues of the body (as distinguished from that of body fluids).
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1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 186 An increase in destruction of organ proteid.
† organ-rest n. Heraldry Obsolete rare = clarion n. 2.
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1846 in J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Organ-rest.
organ screen n. an ornamental screen on which an organ is placed in a cathedral or other church.
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1857 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 14 July in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. vi. 333 There being no organ-screen [in Durham Cathedral].
1999 Cathedral Music Apr. 10/1 The clergy like to greet the congregation..directly under the organ screen.
† organ-sollar n. [ < organ n.1 + sollar n.1] Obsolete an organ loft or organ gallery.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > place of performance or practice > [noun] > organ loft
organ loft1537
organ-sollar1540
organ gallery1741
1540 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 4 Mendynge of the locke on the organ-soler dore.
organ song n. †(a) instrumental music (obsolete); †(b) = organum n.1 4 (obsolete); (c) a song played on an organ.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > organum
organeOE
organ songc1450
organum1782
diaphony1834
triphony1899
c1450 (?c1425) St. Elizabeth of Spalbeck in Anglia (1885) 8 109 A wrast, þat is, an instrument of organ-songe.
a1500 Promptorium Parvulorum (King's Cambr.) 501 Treble of orgene songe [1440 Harl. 221 Treblesonge], precentus.
1997 Shoot (Nexis) 16 May 28 The partners played ‘Glow Little Glow Worm’ on a ballpark organ, invoking the inane organ songs played between innings at ball-games.
organ-specific adj. Biology specific to or for a particular organ.
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the world > life > biology > substance > process stimulators or inhibitors > other stimulators or inhibitors > [adjective] > properties of
organ-specific1932
oncogenic1941
1932 Science 15 July 43/1 These microbe-transmuting organ-emulsions contain organ-specific lipoids.
1971 J. Z. Young Introd. Study Man xvii. 210 Organ-specific inhibitors are known from many tissues.
1999 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96 3334/2 The treatment of organ-specific inflammatory autoimmune disease.
organ specificity n. Biology specificity towards or for a particular organ.
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the world > life > biology > substance > process stimulators or inhibitors > other stimulators or inhibitors > [noun] > properties of
organ specificity1911
oncogenicity1944
1911 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 14 48 Absolutely no organ specificity is demonstrable as regards the agglutination experiments.
1968 H. Harris Nucleus & Cytoplasm iv. 78 It has been contended that the pattern of puffing shows organ specificity but the evidence for this does not seem to be at all conclusive.
1998 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95 10055/1 The organ-specificity of autoimmune disease is dictated by tissue-specific factors.
organ stop n. a set of pipes in an organ producing tones of the same quality; = stop n.2 14a; (also) figurative.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop
stopc1500
register1585
organ stop1644
1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 7 Some times the Lute, or soft organ stop waiting on elegant voices.
1836 C. G. F. Gore Mrs. Armytage I. xvi. 238 I can't bear any instrument but Herz's or Petzold's!—Petzold's last, with the organ stop and flageolet, and drums for military symphonies, are the most perfect in the world.
1955 A. L. Rowse Expansion of Elizabethan Eng. 27 The Queen..was furious... At once all the organ-stops are out.
1992 Economist 11 July 43/3 Mr Heseltine..sees macroeconomic policy and education as being the two most important ‘organ-stops’ requiring agitation to aid industry.
1993 BBC Music Mag. Apr. 76/2 The occasional use of the penetrating sesquialtera organ stop to support the cantus firmus.
organ tone n. = organ note n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of organ
pealingc1475
organ notea1500
organ tone1820
bubble and squeak1960
chorus1961
1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 148 She spake In solemn tenour and deep organ tone.
1984 A. Copland & V. Perlis Copland: 1900–42 vi. 106 An organ key got stuck and would not release... Koussevitzky stopped the orchestra..but the organ tone continued, becoming more and more unbearable.
organ-toned adj. having a tone resembling that of an organ.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > timbre or quality > tone like that of instrument
organ-toned1895
string-toned1938
1895 New Age 12 Sept. 372/2 An organ-toned voice of prodigious depth.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 438 The strains of the organtoned melodeon.
1989 Black Amer. Lit. Forum 23 144 Their music is an organ-toned plaint which yet awaits a Haitian Moussorgsky.

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ˈorgan-like adj. †(a) (probably) mechanical, rote-like (obsolete); (b) resembling an organ in sound.
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1651 W. Hartley Prerogative Priests Passing-bell 7 For singing of Davids Prayers in Meeter, seeing most part of the Book (though entituled Psalms) consists of Petitions, we see neither Precept or President in Scripture or Reason to back such an elaborate Organ-like practice.
1832 New Eng. Mag. May 413 His blank verse..has none of that majestic march, and solemn, organ-like music, for which Milton is so remarkable.
1991 Conjunctions 16 16 Always engendering the massive momentum of an organlike ostinato.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

organn.2

Brit. /ˈɔːɡ(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈɔrɡ(ə)n/, Welsh English /ˈɔːɡː(ə)n/
Forms: Old English organa, Old English–1500s organe, Middle English orgene, Middle English orgone, Middle English– organ, 1600s orgaine, 1700s orgain; English regional (south-western) 1800s argan, 1800s– orgin.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin organum.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin organum organum n.2 Compare origan n.
Now English regional (chiefly south-western) and Welsh English (Pembrokeshire).
1. Any of various plants of the genus Origanum; spec. wild marjoram or oregano, O. vulgare. Now English regional (south-western and south-west midlands) and rare.
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OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) cxxiv. 164 Ðeos wyrt þe man origanum & oðrum naman þam gelice organan nemneþ is hattre gecynde.
?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 11 Nim rudan ane handfulle and organe [L. origani] ane handfulle.
?a1300 in S. G. Hamilton Catal. MSS Worcester Cathedral (1906) 185 Origanum, orgone.
?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh.) (1950) 189 (MED) Organum ys an herbe þat men clepe organe.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.vijv I neuer sawe the trewe organ in England... Our commune organ..is called origanum syluestre in latin, and in some places of England wylde mergerum.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta ii. 44 Take of the tops of Rosemary, of Sage, of Marioram, of Orgaine,..of each one handfull.
1726 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 3) Organy or Orgain, Wild or bastard Majoram, an Herb.
1882 H. Friend Gloss. Devonshire Plant Names 42 Organ, organs. orgins, Origanum vulgare.
†2. Wild thyme, Thymus serpyllum. Obsolete. rare.
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OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) ci. 146 Wið þæs heafodes sare genim þysse wyrte seaw þe man serpillum & oþrum naman organe nemneþ.
?a1300 in S. G. Hamilton Catal. MSS Worcester Cathedral (1906) 185 (MED) Serpillus: organe.
3. Pennyroyal, Mentha pulegium. In later use frequently in plural. Frequently attributive, designating various infusions and concoctions made with the herb, as organ broth, organ tea. Now English regional (chiefly south-western) and Welsh English (Pembrokeshire).In quot. 1867 with reference to ‘organ tea’.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > pennyroyal
pulegeeOE
organOE
hillwortc1000
pulegiumOE
wood-minta1300
puliol royalc1300
churchworta1400
puliol?a1425
pennyroyal1530
pudding grass1538
organy1540
organy1578
OE Names of Herbs (Corpus Cambr. 223) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Glosses (1945) 57 Poleium, organa.
a1500 Agnus Castus (Laud) (1950) 198 (MED) Pvlogium montanum is an herbe me cleputh puliole mountayn..þis hath litel leues lich to organe.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 30 Pulegium angustifolium sive Cervinum..Wee in English [call it] Penny-royall, Pudding grasse, and Pulioll-royall, and in the West parts, as about Exeter, Organs.
1640 Wits Recreations sig. C6v A good wife once a bed of Organs set, The pigs came in and eate up every whit.
a1794 M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. 4 I wish 'twas cry'd treason to drink ort but organ tay.
1867 W. F. Rock Jim an' Nell 6 Jist put her tooties in hot watter, an' gie'r a few strong argans arter.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Organ,..the plant Penny-royal (Mentha pulegium)... It is chopped small and put into a mess called ‘Tea-kettle broth’,..often called ‘Organ broth’.
1982 B. G. Charles Eng. Dial. South Pembrokeshire Organ, the herb penny-royal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† organn.3

Forms: late Middle English–1600s (1800s historical) organ, 1500s organe, 1500s orgayn.
Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: orgays n.
Etymology: Apparently an alteration of orgays n., after organ n.1The alternative etymology proposed in quot. 1607 is unsupported.
Obsolete.
In full organ ling. A large ling (ling n.1 1).
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > molva or ling
lingc1300
winter fish1343
orgays1427
ling fish1489
organ1499
drizzle1769
blue ling1902
1499 Acct. (Sion) in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (1882) (modernized text) III. 320 Organ ling, 2 c* great, £18/.
1507 Acct. (Cambridge) in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (1882) (modernized text) III. 321 Organs, @ 80/.
1526 Eltham Ordinances in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 175 Organe Lyng—1 mess—3d.
1582 Acct. (Cambridge) in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (1882) (modernized text) III. 334 Organ ling, ¼c, @ £15/10.
1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1891) 42 Differinge as much from other people..as the Stockefishe or poore Johns doe from the lardge organ lynge.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Zz3/2 Orgeis..is the greatest sort of North sea-fish, now adaies called Organ ling [1672 adds: corruptly from Orkney Ling, because the best are near that Island].
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xviii. 155 Standing every fish day (as a cold supporter) at my Lord Maiors table; yet is it nothing but a long Cod: whereof the greater sised is called Organe Ling, and the other Codling, because it is no longer than a Cod, and yet hath the taste of Ling.
1887 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices V. 419 Ling, sometimes called organ or great ling.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

organv.

Brit. /ˈɔːɡ(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈɔrɡ(ə)n/
Forms: Old English organian, Old English orgnian, Old English orhnian, 1600s– organ.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: organ n.1
Etymology: < organ n.1The history of the word in English is not continuous; it appears to have been re-formed several times in different senses.
Now rare.
1.
†a. intransitive. To sing to an instrumental accompaniment. Cf. organ n.1 1. Obsolete. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (intransitive)] > sing other music
organOE
chantc1425
madrigal1593
lullaby1603
paeanize1629
holler1852
threne1890
OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 181 Succino, ic undersinge oððe orgnige [OE Harl. 107 organige].
b. intransitive. To play on an organ. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing keyboard instrument > play keyboard instrument [verb (intransitive)] > play organ
organ1827
register1852
1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. P. F. Richter in German Romance III. 301 I organed, my gossip managing the bellows.
1908 M. J. Cawein Quatrains in Poems III. 482 When winds go organing through the pines.
†c. transitive. To play (music) on an organ or barrel organ. to organ out: to dismiss (a person) with the playing of organ music. Also figurative. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > play out (on an instrument)
play1823
to organ out1837
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing keyboard instrument > play keyboard instrument [verb (transitive)] > play organ
organ1837
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing keyboard instrument > play keyboard instrument [verb (transitive)] > play organ > dismiss by
to organ out1837
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. iii. 112 As in a kind of choral anthem, or bravura peal, of thanks,..the Notables are, so to speak, organned out, and dismissed to their respective places of abode.
1844 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 141 There is a dreadful vulgar ballad..which is sung and organed at every corner in London.
c1870 J. S. Blackie in W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire (1875) 57 Anthems organed from rich cloistered halls.
†2.
a. transitive. To provide with a bodily organ or organs; to make into living tissue. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > system > [verb (transitive)] > organ
organize?a1425
organ1652
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila iv. lvii. 59 While Lungs my Breath shall organ, I'l press still Th' Exinanition of my o'regrown Will.
1681 T. Manningham Two Disc. 89 Alas!..thou art Elemented and Organ'd for other Apprehensions.
b. transitive. To provide with a church organ. Obsolete.
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1788 J. Byng Diary 15 Aug. in Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 342 The church, which has been newly repair'd, and..organ'd by a legacy.

Derivatives

ˈorganing n. organ-playing.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing keyboard instrument > [noun] > playing organ
organing1827
1827 T. Carlyle tr. E. T. W. Hoffmann in German Romance II. 302 There was such a piping and organing.
1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 173 Laboriously edified with chaunts and organings.
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