organ

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a periodical that is published by a special interest group

   the organ of the communist party

2. 2
   noun

   a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function

   The Census Bureau is an organ of the Commerce Department

3. 3
   noun

   The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.

   bodily organs

4. 4
   noun

   A device, apparatus.

   This Organ is called a Thermometer, or Thermoscope, because the degrees of Heat and Cold are measured and marked by it.

5. 5
   noun

   A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.

   He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.

6. 6
   noun

   The penis.

   If the Snake has an unmistakeable resemblance to the male organ in its active state, the foliage of the tree or bush is equally remindful of the female.

7. 7
   noun

   An Asian form of mitrailleuse.

   Lieutenant Roberts was also severely wounded by a missile, or weapon called an Organ, which is composed of about thirty-six gun barrels so joined as to fire at once.

8. 8
   verb

   To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.

   [W]hen he ſays, he has compaſſion on’em, they ſhould ask, where then are his Bowels! […] Alaſs! fond Creature, thou art Elemented and Organ’d for other Apprehenſions […]

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-der. Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon)bor. Latin organumder. Old French organebor. Middle English organe English organ From Middle English organe, from Old French organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “an instrument, implement, tool, also an organ of sense or apprehension, an organ of the body, also a musical instrument, an organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-. Doublet of organon, organum, and orgue.