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noun

Wand n.

A small stick; a rod; a verge. "With good smart blows of a wand on his back."

Specifically:

(a)

A staff of authority. "Though he had both spurs and wand, they seemed rather marks of sovereignty than instruments of punishment."

(b)

A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc. "Picus bore a buckler in his hand; His other waved a long divining wand."

Wand of peace (Scots Law), a wand, or staff, carried by the messenger of a court, which he breaks when deforced (that is, hindered from executing process), as a symbol of the deforcement, and protest for remedy of law.

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Etymology of 'Wand'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wand" Quotes from Famous Books

... walking in a way which was not his, a way which had in fact by now diverged many miles from his; and that they could not possibly, even if they would, transport themselves in a moment, at a mere wave of his wand, across the intervening bogs and forests which the lapse of years had rendered impassable. He never appears to have had a single glimpse of the truth that the essential business of the statesman is to be always moving from the past to the future ...

— Milton • John Bailey

... Washington was told to drink it slowly and not hurry what should be a lingering luxury in order to be fully appreciated—it was from the private stores of a Brazilian nobleman with an unrememberable name. The Colonel's tongue was a magician's wand that turned dried apples into figs and water into wine as easily as it could change a hovel into a palace and present poverty into ...

— The Gilded Age, Part 1. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner

... slight, and slim as a hazel wand. Her hair is nut-brown, with a red gold tinge running through it. Her nose is adorable, if slightly tilted; her mouth is a red, red rose, sad but sweet, and full of purpose. Her eyes are large and expressive, but touched, like her lips, with a suspicion of melancholy ...

— Rossmoyne • Unknown

... give us some idea as to the appearance of those of Babylon. No doubt the plan of a mosque differs entirely from that of a temple of Marduk or Nebo, but the principle of the decoration was the same. If the wand of an enchanter could restore the principal buildings of Babylon we should, perhaps, find more than one to which the following description of the great mosque of Ispahan might be applied with the change of a word here and there: "Every part of the building without exception ...

— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot

... give shade and disseminate fragrance, even as time went on to wring moisture from the lead-gray sky above—it was like being granted the might of a magician to touch the desert with the tip of his wand, bringing life gushing forth ...

— Under Handicap - A Novel • Jackson Gregory

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