What is another word for "staff"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "staff": affiance, air, airy, alb, amice, anchor, anticipation, apron, aspiration, assumption, assurance, balm, beam, belief, biretta, bit, blue, bottom, box, bright, buoyancy, calotte, canonicals, capouch, cassock, chasuble, cheer, clear, cloud, confidence, cope, costume, cowl, crosier, crown, dalmatic, dawn, day, desire, dream.