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[AS. * orfgild, Of orfrays fresh was hir gerlond. 4149 5. In phren., any part of the brain supposed to have a particular office or function in determining the character of the individual, and to be indicated by one of the areas of cerebral surface recognized by phrenologists: as, the organ of acquisitivene , of alimentivene , of inhabitivene , etc.-6. The largest, the most complicated, and the noblest of musical instruments, consisting of one or many sets of pipes sounded by means of compre ed air, the whole instrument being under the control of a single player; a pipe-organ, as distinguished from a reed-organ. Historically, the principle of sounding a pipe pneumatically has been known from the earliest times. The combination of pipes or whistles into graduated series, so as to produce the tones of some sort of scale, appears in the primitive Pan's-pipe and in the Chinese cheng, both Rom. of the Rose, 1. 869. of which are blown by the breath, the latter being perhaps Hir cropoure was of orfaré ; And als clere golde hir brydill it schone; One aythir syde hange bellys three. Thomas of Er eldoune (Child's Ballads, I. 99). 2. Same as orphrey, 2. And the Orfrayes sett fulle of gret Perl and precious Stones, fulle nobely wroughte. Mandeville , Travels, p. 233. orfrayt, n. [ orfraye , a corrupt form of offraye, ophraye, for * osfraye , an osprey, o ifragus , osprey: see osprey , o ifrage .] Same as osprey . Moreouer, these orfraies, or ospreies (the Haliartos), are not thought to be a sever all kind of ægles by themselves, but to be mungrels, and engendred of divers sorts. And their young aspraies bee counted a kind of o ifragi. IMG:content-1829.png:[blocks in formation] Holland , tr. of Pliny, x. 3. IMG:content-1830.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1831.png:[blocks in formation] gany, Origanum.] um.] Same as origan. IMG:content-1832.png:[ocr errors]