STETHOSCOPE

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A cylinder of cedar wood, about 12 Inches long and 1 in diameter; perforated throughout its length, and di vided inlo two parts for the convenience of using the whole or half its length. The end of each part terminates in a fun. nel-shaped cavity. Its use is adverted to under the head Auscultation. STEWARD, LORD HIGH, was anciently the first officer of the crown in England, with the Latin title of Magnus Seneschallus. The office was at one period annexed to the lordship of Hinkley, in Leicestershire, held by the family of De Montfort; but on the rebellion and fall of that noble house, it was in effect abolished as a permanent dignity, and is now only revived pro hdc vice on the occasion of a coronation,or the trial of a peer. In the former case the lord high steward's commi ion is to settle matters of precedence, .; in the latter, to preside in the House of Lords. STEWARD, LORD, [s. 1194]