01 n. A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.
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Litui ((#))
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A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.(Rom. Antig.)
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A spiral whose polar equation is r2θ = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line.(Math.)