in-maintenance (iou) and organ(1) (iou)

in-maintenance (iou)

in-maintenance noun. M19.
[from IN-1 + MAINTENANCE.]
Chiefly Hist. Maintenance for a person living in a workhouse etc.

organ noun1. LOE.
[Old French organe, orgene (mod. ORGUE), from Latin organum instrument, engine, musical instrument, (ecclesiastical) church organ, from Greek organon, from Indo-European base also of WORK noun, verb. Cf. ORGY.]
I.
gen. Any of various musical (esp. wind) instruments. Long obsolete exc. in mouth-organ s.v. MOUTH noun. LOE.
spec. A usu. large musical instrument consisting of a number of pipes, supplied with compressed air from bellows, sounded by keys, which on being pressed down let air into the pipes by opening valves. Orig. in pl. ME.
b. Any of a number of separate groups of sets or stops, each with its own keyboard, which make up an organ. E17.
choir organ, great organ, pedal organ, swell organ, etc.
a. = barrel-organ s.v. BARREL noun. M19.
b. A keyboard instrument with metal reeds, bellows mostly worked by treadles, and (usu.) a number of stops; a harmonium; a reed-organ. Now also = electric organ s.v. ELECTRIC adjective. L19.
American organ, cabinet organ, pipe-organ, reed-organ, etc.
II.
A part of an animal or plant adapted for a particular function, such as digestion, respiration, excretion, reproduction, locomotion, perception, etc. LME.
internal organ, Jacobson's organ, nasal organ, pit organ, sense-organ, sexual organ, etc. electric organ: see ELECTRIC adjective. organ of CORTI. organ of ROSENMuLLER.
b. The human organs of speech or voice collectively; the larynx and its accessories as used in speaking or singing. rare. E17.
c. Phrenology. Each of the regions of the brain held to be the site of particular mental faculties. E19.
d. The penis. Also more fully male organ. colloq. E20.
Hist. A mechanical device, esp. a firearm, a machine-gun. LME.
a. A means of action or operation; an instrument. Now esp., a person, body of people, or thing by which some purpose is carried out or some function is performed. LME.
G. M. Trevelyan County Councils..the administrative organs of country life. Accountancy Enforcement has to be by an organ of government, preferably the Secretary of State.
b. A mental or spiritual faculty regarded as an instrument of the mind or soul. M17.
W. Hamilton Faith, Belief,is the organ by which we apprehend what is beyond our knowledge.
c. A means or medium of communication; spec. a newspaper or journal which serves as the mouthpiece of a particular party, movement, etc. L18.
B. Guest The..magazine was originally begun as an organ for the philosophy of Dora Marsden.
Comb.: organ-bird either of two Australian birds of the family Cracticidae having a melodious song, the pied butcher-bird Cracticus nigrogularis, and the black-backed magpie Gymnorhina tibicen; organ-blower a person who or mechanical device which works the bellows of an organ; organ-cactus = organ-pipe cactus s.v. ORGAN-PIPE 2; organ clock a clock which plays a small pipe-organ at regular intervals; organ-coral = ORGAN-PIPE coral; organ-grinder (a) a street musician who works a barrel-organ (cf. GRINDER 1c); (b) fig. [with ref. to the tradition of an organ-grinder's keeping a monkey trained to collect money] a person in control, a boss (as opposed to an underling); organ-gun a firearm with several charged chambers set side by side like organ-pipes (cf. sense 5 above); organ-loft a loft or gallery for an organ; organ-man (a) a man who builds or Repairs organs; (b) an organ-grinder; organ-metal = pipe-metal s.v. PIPE noun1; organ-point = pedal point s.v. PEDAL noun1; organ-screen an ornamental screen on which an organ is placed in a church, cathedral, etc.; organ-stop: see STOP noun2 14.
orga'nific adjective having the property or power of forming organs or organized structures; formative, organizing: E19.
organless adjective (a) having no (bodily) organs; (b) having no musical organ: M19.

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