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 Wand n.
 1. A small stick; a rod; a verge.
    With good smart blows of a wand on his back.   --Locke.
 2. Specifically: (a) A staff of authority.
    Though he had both spurs and wand, they seemed rather marks of sovereignty than instruments of punishment.   --Sir P. Sidney.
 (b) A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc.
 Picus bore a buckler in his hand;
 His other waved a long divining wand.   --Dryden.
 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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