·vt To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs; to Organize.
II. Organ ·noun A component part performing an essential office in the working of any complex machine; as, the cylinder, valves, crank, ·etc., are organs of the steam engine.
III. Organ ·noun An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, ·etc., are organs of government.
IV. Organ ·noun A medium of communication between one person or body and another; as, the secretary of state is the organ of communication between the government and a foreign power; a newspaper is the organ of its editor, or of a party, sect, ·etc.
V. Organ ·noun A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action (termed its function), which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, ·etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, ·etc., are organs of plants.
VI. Organ ·noun A wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals;
— formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ.