4. A medium of communication between one person or body and another; as, the secretary of state is the organ of communication between the government and a foreign power; a newspaper is the organ of its editor, or of a party, sect, etc.
5. Etym: [Cf. AS. organ, fr. L. organum.] (Mus.)
Defn: A wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; — formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ. The deep, majestic, solemn organs blow. Pope.
Note: Chaucer used the form orgon as a plural.
The merry orgon . . . that in the church goon [go]. Barrel organ,
Choir organ, Great organ, etc. See under Barrel, Choir, etc.
— Cabinet organ (Mus.), an organ of small size, as for a chapel or
for domestic use; a reed organ.
— Organ bird (Zoöl.), a Tasmanian crow shrike (Gymnorhina
organicum). It utters discordant notes like those of a hand organ out
of tune.
— Organ fish (Zoöl.), the drumfish.
— Organ gun. (Mil.) Same as Orgue (b).
— Organ harmonium (Mus.), an harmonium of large capacity and power.
— Organ of Gorti (Anat.), a complicated structure in the cochlea of
the ear, including the auditory hair cells, the rods or fibers of
Corti, the membrane of Corti, etc. See Note under Ear.
— Organ pipe. See Pipe, n., 1.
— Organ-pipe coral. (Zoöl.) See Tubipora.
— Organ point (Mus.), a passage in which the tonic or dominant is
sustained continuously by one part, while the other parts move.
ORGAN
Or"gan, v. t.
Defn: To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs; to
organize. [Obs.]
Thou art elemented and organed for other apprehensions. Bp.
Mannyngham.
ORGANDIE; ORGANDY
Or"gan*die, Or"gan*dy, n. Etym: [F. organdi.]
Defn: A kind of transparent light muslin.
ORGANIC
Or*gan"ic, a. Etym: [L. organicus, Gr. organique.]
1. (Biol.)