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An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies.

• Instrumentist
  A performer on a musical instrument; an instrumentalist.
• Celestial
  Belonging to the aerial regions, or visible heavens.
• Celestialize
  To make celestial.
• Take-in
  Imposition; fraud.
• Celestially
  In a celestial manner.
• Formerly
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• Take-off
  An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
• Instrument
  That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical instruments.
• Instrumental
  Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; as, he was instrumental in conducting the business.
• Take-up
  That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
• Instrumentalist
  One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.
• Taking-off
  Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t.
• Instrumentalities
  of Instrumentality
• INSTRUMENTALISM
  The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n. Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these ideas a

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