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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Senna \Sen"na\, n. [Cf. It. & Sp. sena, Pg. sene, F. s[82]n[82]; all fr. Ar. san[be].] 1. (Med.) The leaves of several leguminous plants of the genus Cassia. ({C. acutifolia}, {C. angustifolia}, etc.). They constitute a valuable but nauseous cathartic medicine. 2. (Bot.) The plants themselves, native to the East, but now cultivated largely in the south of Europe and in the West Indies. {Bladder senna}. (Bot.) See under {Bladder}. {Wild senna} (Bot.), the {Cassia Marilandica}, growing in the United States, the leaves of which are used medicinally, like those of the officinal senna. | |
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Mechoacan \Me*cho"a*can\, n. A species of jalap, of very feeble properties, said to be obtained from the root of a species of {Convolvulus} ({C. Mechoacan}); -- so called from Michoacan, in Mexico, whence it is obtained. | |
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Water ousel \Wa"ter ou"sel\, Water ouzel \Wa"ter ou"zel\ . (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of small insessorial birds of the genus {Cinclus} (or {Hydrobates}), especially the European water ousel ({C. aquaticus}), and the American water ousel ({C. Mexicanus}). These birds live about the water, and are in the habit of walking on the bottom of streams beneath the water in search of food. | |
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Ousel \Ou"sel\, n. [OE. osel, AS. [?]sle; akin to G. amsel, OHG. amsala, and perh. to L. merula blackbird. Cf. {Merle}, {Amsel}.] (Zo[94]l.) One of several species of European thrushes, especially the blackbird ({Merula merula}, or {Turdus merula}), and the mountain or ring ousel ({Turdus torquatus}). [Written also {ouzel}.] {Rock ousel} (Zo[94]l.), the ring ousel. {Water ousel} (Zo[94]l.), the European dipper ({Cinclus aquaticus}), and the American dipper ({C. Mexicanus}). | |
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Indican \In"di*can\, n. [See {Indigo}.] 1. (Chem.) A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter taste, a decomposes or drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc., it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo. 2. (Physiol. Chem.) An indigo-forming substance, found in urine, and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin). Chemically, it is indoxyl sulphate of potash, {C8H6NSO4K}, and is derived from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Called also {uroxanthin}. | |
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C91nozoic \C[91]`no*zo"ic\, a. (Geol.) See {Cenozoic}. | |
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Cenozoic \Ce`no*zo"ic\, a. [Gr. [?] recent + [?] life.] (Geol.) Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also {c[91]nozoic}, {cainozoic}, {kainozoic}.] See {Geology}. Note: This word is used by many authors as synonymous with Tertiary, the Quaternary Age not being included. | |
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C91nozoic \C[91]`no*zo"ic\, a. (Geol.) See {Cenozoic}. | |
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Cenozoic \Ce`no*zo"ic\, a. [Gr. [?] recent + [?] life.] (Geol.) Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also {c[91]nozoic}, {cainozoic}, {kainozoic}.] See {Geology}. Note: This word is used by many authors as synonymous with Tertiary, the Quaternary Age not being included. | |
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Cahincic \Ca*hin"cic\, a. Pertaining to, or derived from, cahinca, the native name of a species of Brazilian {Chiococca}, perhaps {C. racemosa}; as, cahincic acid. | |
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Cainozoic \Cai`no*zo"ic\, a. (Geol.) See {Cenozic}. | |
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Cenozoic \Ce`no*zo"ic\, a. [Gr. [?] recent + [?] life.] (Geol.) Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also {c[91]nozoic}, {cainozoic}, {kainozoic}.] See {Geology}. Note: This word is used by many authors as synonymous with Tertiary, the Quaternary Age not being included. | |
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Cainozoic \Cai`no*zo"ic\, a. (Geol.) See {Cenozic}. | |
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Cenozoic \Ce`no*zo"ic\, a. [Gr. [?] recent + [?] life.] (Geol.) Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also {c[91]nozoic}, {cainozoic}, {kainozoic}.] See {Geology}. Note: This word is used by many authors as synonymous with Tertiary, the Quaternary Age not being included. | |
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Camass \Cam"ass\, n. [American Indian name.] (Bot.) A blue-flowered liliaceous plant ({Camassia esculenta}) of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians. [Written also {camas}, {cammas}, and {quamash}.] Note: The Eastern cammass is Camassia Fraseri. | |
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Sugar \Sug"ar\, n. [OE. sugre, F. sucre (cf. It. zucchero, Sp. az[a3]car), fr. Ar. sukkar, assukkar, fr. Skr. [87]arkar[be] sugar, gravel; cf. Per. shakar. Cf. {Saccharine}, {Sucrose}.] 1. A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below. Note: The term sugar includes several commercial grades, as the white or refined, granulated, loaf or lump, and the raw brown or muscovado. In a more general sense, it includes several distinct chemical compounds, as the glucoses, or grape sugars (including glucose proper, dextrose, and levulose), and the sucroses, or true sugars (as cane sugar). All sugars are carbohydrates. See {Carbohydrate}. The glucoses, or grape sugars, are ketone alcohols of the formula {C6H12O6}, and they turn the plane of polarization to the right or the left. They are produced from the amyloses and sucroses, as by the action of heat and acids of ferments, and are themselves decomposed by fermentation into alcohol and carbon dioxide. The only sugar (called acrose) as yet produced artificially belongs to this class. The sucroses, or cane sugars, are doubled glucose anhydrides of the formula {C12H22O11}. They are usually not fermentable as such (cf. {Sucrose}), and they act on polarized light. 2. By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste. 3. Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words. [Colloq.] {Acorn sugar}. See {Quercite}. {Cane sugar}, sugar made from the sugar cane; sucrose, or an isomeric sugar. See {Sucrose}. {Diabetes}, [or] {Diabetic}, {sugar} (Med. Chem.), a variety of sugar (probably grape sugar or dextrose) excreted in the urine in diabetes mellitus. {Fruit sugar}. See under {Fruit}, and {Fructose}. {Grape sugar}, a sirupy or white crystalline sugar (dextrose or glucose) found as a characteristic ingredient of ripe grapes, and also produced from many other sources. See {Dextrose}, and {Glucose}. {Invert sugar}. See under {Invert}. {Malt sugar}, a variety of sugar isomeric with sucrose, found in malt. See {Maltose}. {Manna sugar}, a substance found in manna, resembling, but distinct from, the sugars. See {Mannite}. {Milk sugar}, a variety of sugar characteristic of fresh milk, and isomeric with sucrose. See {Lactose}. {Muscle sugar}, a sweet white crystalline substance isomeric with, and formerly regarded to, the glucoses. It is found in the tissue of muscle, the heart, liver, etc. Called also {heart sugar}. See {Inosite}. {Pine sugar}. See {Pinite}. {Starch sugar} (Com. Chem.), a variety of dextrose made by the action of heat and acids on starch from corn, potatoes, etc.; -- called also {potato sugar}, {corn sugar}, and, inaccurately, {invert sugar}. See {Dextrose}, and {Glucose}. {Sugar barek}, one who refines sugar. {Sugar beet} (Bot.), a variety of beet ({Beta vulgaris}) with very large white roots, extensively grown, esp. in Europe, for the sugar obtained from them. {Sugar berry} (Bot.), the hackberry. {Sugar bird} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small South American singing birds of the genera {C[d2]reba}, {Dacnis}, and allied genera belonging to the family {C[d2]rebid[91]}. They are allied to the honey eaters. {Sugar bush}. See {Sugar orchard}. {Sugar camp}, a place in or near a sugar orchard, where maple sugar is made. {Sugar candian}, sugar candy. [Obs.] {Sugar candy}, sugar clarified and concreted or crystallized; candy made from sugar. {Sugar cane} (Bot.), a tall perennial grass ({Saccharum officinarium}), with thick short-jointed stems. It has been cultivated for ages as the principal source of sugar. {Sugar loaf}. (a) A loaf or mass of refined sugar, usually in the form of a truncated cone. (b) A hat shaped like a sugar loaf. Why, do not or know you, grannam, and that sugar loaf? --J. Webster. {Sugar maple} (Bot.), the rock maple ({Acer saccharinum}). See {Maple}. {Sugar mill}, a machine for pressing out the juice of the sugar cane, usually consisting of three or more rollers, between which the cane is passed. {Sugar mite}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small mite ({Tyroglyphus sacchari}), often found in great numbers in unrefined sugar. (b) The lepisma. {Sugar of lead}. See {Sugar}, 2, above. {Sugar of milk}. See under {Milk}. {Sugar orchard}, a collection of maple trees selected and preserved for purpose of obtaining sugar from them; -- called also, sometimes, {sugar bush}. [U.S.] --Bartlett. {Sugar pine} (Bot.), an immense coniferous tree ({Pinus Lambertiana}) of California and Oregon, furnishing a soft and easily worked timber. The resinous exudation from the stumps, etc., has a sweetish taste, and has been used as a substitute for sugar. {Sugar squirrel} (Zo[94]l.), an Australian flying phalanger ({Belideus sciureus}), having a long bushy tail and a large parachute. It resembles a flying squirrel. See Illust. under {Phlanger}. {Sugar tongs}, small tongs, as of silver, used at table for taking lumps of sugar from a sugar bowl. {Sugar tree}. (Bot.) See {Sugar maple}, above. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sucrose \Su"crose`\, n. [F. sucre sugar. See {Sugar}.] (Chem.) A common variety of sugar found in the juices of many plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, sugar maple, beet root, etc. It is extracted as a sweet, white crystalline substance which is valuable as a food product, and, being antiputrescent, is largely used in the preservation of fruit. Called also {saccharose}, {cane sugar}, etc. By extension, any one of the class of isomeric substances (as lactose, maltose, etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type. Note: Sucrose proper is a dextrorotatory carbohydrate, {C12H22O11}. It does not reduce Fehling's solution, and though not directly fermentable, yet on standing with yeast it is changed by the diastase present to invert sugar (dextrose and levulose), which then breaks down to alcohol and carbon dioxide. It is also decomposed to invert sugar by heating with acids, whence it is also called a {disaccharate} | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sugar \Sug"ar\, n. [OE. sugre, F. sucre (cf. It. zucchero, Sp. az[a3]car), fr. Ar. sukkar, assukkar, fr. Skr. [87]arkar[be] sugar, gravel; cf. Per. shakar. Cf. {Saccharine}, {Sucrose}.] 1. A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below. Note: The term sugar includes several commercial grades, as the white or refined, granulated, loaf or lump, and the raw brown or muscovado. In a more general sense, it includes several distinct chemical compounds, as the glucoses, or grape sugars (including glucose proper, dextrose, and levulose), and the sucroses, or true sugars (as cane sugar). All sugars are carbohydrates. See {Carbohydrate}. The glucoses, or grape sugars, are ketone alcohols of the formula {C6H12O6}, and they turn the plane of polarization to the right or the left. They are produced from the amyloses and sucroses, as by the action of heat and acids of ferments, and are themselves decomposed by fermentation into alcohol and carbon dioxide. The only sugar (called acrose) as yet produced artificially belongs to this class. The sucroses, or cane sugars, are doubled glucose anhydrides of the formula {C12H22O11}. They are usually not fermentable as such (cf. {Sucrose}), and they act on polarized light. 2. By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste. 3. Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words. [Colloq.] {Acorn sugar}. See {Quercite}. {Cane sugar}, sugar made from the sugar cane; sucrose, or an isomeric sugar. See {Sucrose}. {Diabetes}, [or] {Diabetic}, {sugar} (Med. Chem.), a variety of sugar (probably grape sugar or dextrose) excreted in the urine in diabetes mellitus. {Fruit sugar}. See under {Fruit}, and {Fructose}. {Grape sugar}, a sirupy or white crystalline sugar (dextrose or glucose) found as a characteristic ingredient of ripe grapes, and also produced from many other sources. See {Dextrose}, and {Glucose}. {Invert sugar}. See under {Invert}. {Malt sugar}, a variety of sugar isomeric with sucrose, found in malt. See {Maltose}. {Manna sugar}, a substance found in manna, resembling, but distinct from, the sugars. See {Mannite}. {Milk sugar}, a variety of sugar characteristic of fresh milk, and isomeric with sucrose. See {Lactose}. {Muscle sugar}, a sweet white crystalline substance isomeric with, and formerly regarded to, the glucoses. It is found in the tissue of muscle, the heart, liver, etc. Called also {heart sugar}. See {Inosite}. {Pine sugar}. See {Pinite}. {Starch sugar} (Com. Chem.), a variety of dextrose made by the action of heat and acids on starch from corn, potatoes, etc.; -- called also {potato sugar}, {corn sugar}, and, inaccurately, {invert sugar}. See {Dextrose}, and {Glucose}. {Sugar barek}, one who refines sugar. {Sugar beet} (Bot.), a variety of beet ({Beta vulgaris}) with very large white roots, extensively grown, esp. in Europe, for the sugar obtained from them. {Sugar berry} (Bot.), the hackberry. {Sugar bird} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small South American singing birds of the genera {C[d2]reba}, {Dacnis}, and allied genera belonging to the family {C[d2]rebid[91]}. They are allied to the honey eaters. {Sugar bush}. See {Sugar orchard}. {Sugar camp}, a place in or near a sugar orchard, where maple sugar is made. {Sugar candian}, sugar candy. [Obs.] {Sugar candy}, sugar clarified and concreted or crystallized; candy made from sugar. {Sugar cane} (Bot.), a tall perennial grass ({Saccharum officinarium}), with thick short-jointed stems. It has been cultivated for ages as the principal source of sugar. {Sugar loaf}. (a) A loaf or mass of refined sugar, usually in the form of a truncated cone. (b) A hat shaped like a sugar loaf. Why, do not or know you, grannam, and that sugar loaf? --J. Webster. {Sugar maple} (Bot.), the rock maple ({Acer saccharinum}). See {Maple}. {Sugar mill}, a machine for pressing out the juice of the sugar cane, usually consisting of three or more rollers, between which the cane is passed. {Sugar mite}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small mite ({Tyroglyphus sacchari}), often found in great numbers in unrefined sugar. (b) The lepisma. {Sugar of lead}. See {Sugar}, 2, above. {Sugar of milk}. See under {Milk}. {Sugar orchard}, a collection of maple trees selected and preserved for purpose of obtaining sugar from them; -- called also, sometimes, {sugar bush}. [U.S.] --Bartlett. {Sugar pine} (Bot.), an immense coniferous tree ({Pinus Lambertiana}) of California and Oregon, furnishing a soft and easily worked timber. The resinous exudation from the stumps, etc., has a sweetish taste, and has been used as a substitute for sugar. {Sugar squirrel} (Zo[94]l.), an Australian flying phalanger ({Belideus sciureus}), having a long bushy tail and a large parachute. It resembles a flying squirrel. See Illust. under {Phlanger}. {Sugar tongs}, small tongs, as of silver, used at table for taking lumps of sugar from a sugar bowl. {Sugar tree}. (Bot.) See {Sugar maple}, above. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sucrose \Su"crose`\, n. [F. sucre sugar. See {Sugar}.] (Chem.) A common variety of sugar found in the juices of many plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, sugar maple, beet root, etc. It is extracted as a sweet, white crystalline substance which is valuable as a food product, and, being antiputrescent, is largely used in the preservation of fruit. Called also {saccharose}, {cane sugar}, etc. By extension, any one of the class of isomeric substances (as lactose, maltose, etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type. Note: Sucrose proper is a dextrorotatory carbohydrate, {C12H22O11}. It does not reduce Fehling's solution, and though not directly fermentable, yet on standing with yeast it is changed by the diastase present to invert sugar (dextrose and levulose), which then breaks down to alcohol and carbon dioxide. It is also decomposed to invert sugar by heating with acids, whence it is also called a {disaccharate} | |
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Cenozoic \Ce`no*zo"ic\, a. [Gr. [?] recent + [?] life.] (Geol.) Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also {c[91]nozoic}, {cainozoic}, {kainozoic}.] See {Geology}. Note: This word is used by many authors as synonymous with Tertiary, the Quaternary Age not being included. | |
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Census \Cen"sus\, n. [L. census, fr. censere. See {Censor}.] 1. (Bot. Antiq.) A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years. 2. An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country. Note: A general census of the United States was first taken in 1790, and one has been taken at the end of every ten years since. | |
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Chance \Chance\ (ch[adot]ns), n. [F. chance, OF. cheance, fr. LL. cadentia a allusion to the falling of the dice), fr. L. cadere to fall; akin to Skr. [87]ad to fall, L. cedere to yield, E. cede. Cf. {Cadence}.] 1. A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified. It is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause. --Samuel Clark. Any society into which chance might throw him. --Macaulay. That power Which erring men call Chance. --Milton. 2. The operation or activity of such agent. By chance a priest came down that way. --Luke x. 31. 3. The supposed effect of such an agent; something that befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces; the issue of uncertain conditions; an event not calculated upon; an unexpected occurrence; a happening; accident; fortuity; casualty. It was a chance that happened to us. --1 Sam. vi. 9. The Knave of Diamonds tries his wily arts, And wins (O shameful chance!) the Queen of Hearts. --Pope. I spake of most disastrous chance. --Shak. 4. A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him. So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune. That I would get my life on any chance, To mend it, or be rid on 't --Shak. 5. (Math.) Probability. Note: The mathematical expression, of a chance is the ratio of frequency with which an event happens in the long run. If an event may happen in a ways and may fail in b ways, and each of these a + b ways is equally likely, the chance, or probability, that the event will happen is measured by the fraction a/a + b, and the chance, or probability, that it will fail is measured by b/a + b. {Chance comer}, one who comes unexpectedly. {The last chance}, the sole remaining ground of hope. {The main chance}, the chief opportunity; that upon which reliance is had, esp. self-interest. {Theory of chances}, {Doctrine of chances} (Math.), that branch of mathematics which treats of the probability of the occurrence of particular events, as the fall of dice in given positions. {To mind one's chances}, to take advantage of every circumstance; to seize every opportunity. | |
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Change gear \Change gear\ (Mach.) A gear by means of which the speed of machinery or of a vehicle may be changed while that of the propelling engine or motor remains constant; -- called also {change-speed gear}. | |
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Change key \Change key\ A key adapted to open only one of a set of locks; -- distinguished from a {master key}. | |
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Change gear \Change gear\ (Mach.) A gear by means of which the speed of machinery or of a vehicle may be changed while that of the propelling engine or motor remains constant; -- called also {change-speed gear}. | |
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Chin cough \Chin" cough"\ [For chink cough; cf. As. cincung long laughter, Scot. kink a violent fit of coughing, akin to MHG. k[c6]chen to pant. Cf. {Kinknaust}, {Cough}.] Whooping cough. | |
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Chippendale \Chip"pen*dale\, a. Designating furniture designed, or like that designed, by Thomas Chippendale, an English cabinetmaker of the 18th century. Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glued on. In the more elaborate pieces three types are recognized: {French Chippendale}, having much detail, like Louis Quatorze and Louis Quinze; {Chinese Chippendale}, marked by latticework and pagodalike pediments; and {Gothic Chippendale}, attempting to adapt medieval details. The forms, as of the cabriole and chairbacks, often resemble Queen Anne. In chairs, the seat is widened at the front, and the back toward the top widened and bent backward, except in Chinese Chippendale, in which the backs are usually rectangular. -- {Chip"pen*dal*ism}, n. It must be clearly and unmistakably understood, then, that, whenever painted (that is to say, decorated with painted enrichment) or inlaid furniture is described as Chippendale, no matter where or by whom, it is a million chances to one that the description is incorrect. --R. D. Benn. | |
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Chinese Exclusion Act \Chinese Exclusion Act\ Any of several acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States, originally from 1882 to 1892 by act of May 6, 1882, then from 1892 to 1902 by act May 5, 1892. By act of April 29, 1902, all existing legislation on the subject was re[89]nacted and continued, and made applicable to the insular possessions of the United States. | |
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Chinese \Chi"nese"\, a. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. {Chinese paper}. See {India paper}, under {India}. {Chinese wax}, a snowy-white, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family {Coccid[91]} especially {Coccus Sinensis}. | |
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d8Cimex \[d8]Ci"mex\, n.; pl. {Cimices}. [L., a bug.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See {Bedbug}. | |
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Thistle \This"tle\, n. [OE. thistil, AS. [thorn]istel; akin to D. & G. distel, OHG. distila, distil, Icel. [thorn]istill, Sw. tistel, Dan. tidsel; of uncertain origin.] (Bot.) Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera {Cnicus}, {Craduus}, and {Onopordon}. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants. {Blessed thistle}, {Carduus benedictus}, so named because it was formerly considered an antidote to the bite of venomous creatures. {Bull thistle}, {Cnicus lanceolatus}, the common large thistle of neglected pastures. {Canada thistle}, {Cnicus arvensis}, a native of Europe, but introduced into the United States from Canada. {Cotton thistle}, {Onopordon Acanthium}. {Fuller's thistle}, the teasel. {Globe thistle}, {Melon thistle}, etc. See under {Globe}, {Melon}, etc. {Pine thistle}, {Atractylis gummifera}, a native of the Mediterranean region. A vicid gum resin flows from the involucre. {Scotch thistle}, either the cotton thistle, or the musk thistle, or the spear thistle; -- all used national emblems of Scotland. {Sow thistle}, {Sonchus oleraceus}. {Spear thistle}. Same as {Bull thistle}. {Star thistle}, a species of {Centaurea}. See {Centaurea}. {Torch thistle}, a candelabra-shaped plant of the genus Cereus. See {Cereus}. {Yellow thistle}, {Cincus horridulus}. {Thistle bird} (Zo[94]l.), the American goldfinch, or yellow-bird ({Spinus tristis}); -- so called on account of its feeding on the seeds of thistles. See Illust. under {Goldfinch}. {Thistle butterfly} (Zo[94]l.), a handsomely colored American butterfly ({Vanessa cardui}) whose larva feeds upon thistles; -- called also {painted lady}. {Thistle cock} (Zo[94]l.), the corn bunting ({Emberiza militaria}). [Prov. Eng.] {Thistle crown}, a gold coin of England of the reign of James I., worth four shillings. {Thistle finch} (Zo[94]l.), the goldfinch; -- so called from its fondness for thistle seeds. [Prov. Eng.] {Thistle funnel}, a funnel having a bulging body and flaring mouth. | |
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Cinquecentist \Cin`que*cen"tist\, n. 1. An Italian of the sixteenth century, esp. a poet or artist. 2. A student or imitator of the art or literature of the Cinquecento. | |
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Cinque-spotted \Cinque"-spot`ted\, a. Five-spotted. [R.] --Shak. | |
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Thistle \This"tle\, n. [OE. thistil, AS. [thorn]istel; akin to D. & G. distel, OHG. distila, distil, Icel. [thorn]istill, Sw. tistel, Dan. tidsel; of uncertain origin.] (Bot.) Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera {Cnicus}, {Craduus}, and {Onopordon}. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants. {Blessed thistle}, {Carduus benedictus}, so named because it was formerly considered an antidote to the bite of venomous creatures. {Bull thistle}, {Cnicus lanceolatus}, the common large thistle of neglected pastures. {Canada thistle}, {Cnicus arvensis}, a native of Europe, but introduced into the United States from Canada. {Cotton thistle}, {Onopordon Acanthium}. {Fuller's thistle}, the teasel. {Globe thistle}, {Melon thistle}, etc. See under {Globe}, {Melon}, etc. {Pine thistle}, {Atractylis gummifera}, a native of the Mediterranean region. A vicid gum resin flows from the involucre. {Scotch thistle}, either the cotton thistle, or the musk thistle, or the spear thistle; -- all used national emblems of Scotland. {Sow thistle}, {Sonchus oleraceus}. {Spear thistle}. Same as {Bull thistle}. {Star thistle}, a species of {Centaurea}. See {Centaurea}. {Torch thistle}, a candelabra-shaped plant of the genus Cereus. See {Cereus}. {Yellow thistle}, {Cincus horridulus}. {Thistle bird} (Zo[94]l.), the American goldfinch, or yellow-bird ({Spinus tristis}); -- so called on account of its feeding on the seeds of thistles. See Illust. under {Goldfinch}. {Thistle butterfly} (Zo[94]l.), a handsomely colored American butterfly ({Vanessa cardui}) whose larva feeds upon thistles; -- called also {painted lady}. {Thistle cock} (Zo[94]l.), the corn bunting ({Emberiza militaria}). [Prov. Eng.] {Thistle crown}, a gold coin of England of the reign of James I., worth four shillings. {Thistle finch} (Zo[94]l.), the goldfinch; -- so called from its fondness for thistle seeds. [Prov. Eng.] {Thistle funnel}, a funnel having a bulging body and flaring mouth. | |
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Spear \Spear\, n. [OE. spere, AS. spere; akin to D. & G. speer, OS. & OHS. sper, Icel. spj[94]r, pl., Dan. sp[91]r, L. sparus.] 1. A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance. Note: [See Illust. of {Spearhead}.] [bd]A sharp ground spear.[b8] --Chaucer. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. --Micah iv. 3. 2. Fig.: A spearman. --Sir W. Scott. 3. A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals. 4. A shoot, as of grass; a spire. 5. The feather of a horse. See {Feather}, n., 4. 6. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod. {Spear foot}, the off hind foot of a horse. {Spear grass}. (Bot.) (a) The common reed. See {Reed}, n., 1. (b) meadow grass. See under {Meadow}. {Spear hand}, the hand in which a horseman holds a spear; the right hand. --Crabb. {Spear side}, the male line of a family. --Lowell. {Spear thistle} (Bot.), the common thistle ({Cnicus lanceolatus}). | |
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Thistle \This"tle\, n. [OE. thistil, AS. [thorn]istel; akin to D. & G. distel, OHG. distila, distil, Icel. [thorn]istill, Sw. tistel, Dan. tidsel; of uncertain origin.] (Bot.) Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera {Cnicus}, {Craduus}, and {Onopordon}. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants. {Blessed thistle}, {Carduus benedictus}, so named because it was formerly considered an antidote to the bite of venomous creatures. {Bull thistle}, {Cnicus lanceolatus}, the common large thistle of neglected pastures. {Canada thistle}, {Cnicus arvensis}, a native of Europe, but introduced into the United States from Canada. {Cotton thistle}, {Onopordon Acanthium}. {Fuller's thistle}, the teasel. {Globe thistle}, {Melon thistle}, etc. See under {Globe}, {Melon}, etc. {Pine thistle}, {Atractylis gummifera}, a native of the Mediterranean region. A vicid gum resin flows from the involucre. {Scotch thistle}, either the cotton thistle, or the musk thistle, or the spear thistle; -- all used national emblems of Scotland. {Sow thistle}, {Sonchus oleraceus}. {Spear thistle}. Same as {Bull thistle}. {Star thistle}, a species of {Centaurea}. See {Centaurea}. {Torch thistle}, a candelabra-shaped plant of the genus Cereus. See {Cereus}. {Yellow thistle}, {Cincus horridulus}. {Thistle bird} (Zo[94]l.), the American goldfinch, or yellow-bird ({Spinus tristis}); -- so called on account of its feeding on the seeds of thistles. See Illust. under {Goldfinch}. {Thistle butterfly} (Zo[94]l.), a handsomely colored American butterfly ({Vanessa cardui}) whose larva feeds upon thistles; -- called also {painted lady}. {Thistle cock} (Zo[94]l.), the corn bunting ({Emberiza militaria}). [Prov. Eng.] {Thistle crown}, a gold coin of England of the reign of James I., worth four shillings. {Thistle finch} (Zo[94]l.), the goldfinch; -- so called from its fondness for thistle seeds. [Prov. Eng.] {Thistle funnel}, a funnel having a bulging body and flaring mouth. | |
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Concause \Con*cause"\ (-k[add]z"), n. A joint cause. --Fotherby. | |
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Concession \Con*ces"sion\, n. [L. concessio, fr. concedere: cf. F. concession. See {Concede}.] 1. The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous. By mutual concession the business was adjusted. --Hallam. 2. A thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something; as, a concession to build a canal. This is therefore a concession, that he doth . . . believe the Scriptures to be sufficiently plain. --Sharp. When a lover becomes satisfied by small compliances without further pursuits, then expect to find popular assemblies content with small concessions. --Swift. | |
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Concessionaire \Con*ces`sion*aire"\, d8Concessionnaire \[d8]Con`ces`sion`naire"\, n. [F. concessionnaire.] The beneficiary of a concession or grant. | |
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Concessionary \Con*ces"sion*a*ry\, a. Of or pertaining to a concession. -- n.; pl. {-ries}. A concessionaire. | |
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Concessionist \Con*ces"sion*ist\, n. One who favors concession. | |
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Concessive \Con*ces"sive\, a. [L. concessivus.] Implying concession; as, a concessive conjunction. --Lowth. | |
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Concessively \Con*ces"sive*ly\, adv. By way of concession. | |
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Concessory \Con*ces"so*ry\, a. Conceding; permissive. | |
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d8Strombus \[d8]Strom"bus\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?].] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of marine gastropods in which the shell has the outer lip dilated into a broad wing. It includes many large and handsome species commonly called {conch shells}, or {conchs}. See {Conch}. | |
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Concho-spiral \Con`cho-spi"ral\, n. A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells. --Agassiz. | |
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d8Strombus \[d8]Strom"bus\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?].] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of marine gastropods in which the shell has the outer lip dilated into a broad wing. It includes many large and handsome species commonly called {conch shells}, or {conchs}. See {Conch}. | |
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Concise \Con*cise"\, a. [L. concisus cut off, short, p. p. of concidere to cut to pieces; con- + caedere to cut; perh. akin to scindere to cleave, and to E. shed, v. t.; cf. F. concis.] Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking. The concise style, which expresseth not enough, but leaves somewhat to be understood. --B. Jonson. Where the author is . . . too brief and concise, amplify a little. --I. Watts. Syn: Laconic; terse; brief; short; compendious; summary; succinct. See {Laconic}, and {Terse}. | |
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Concisely \Con*cise"ly\, adv. In a concise manner; briefly. | |
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Conciseness \Con*cise"ness\, n. The quality of being concise. | |
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Concision \Con*ci"sion\, n. [L. concisio: cf. F. concision. See {Concise}.] A cutting off; a division; a schism; a faction. --South. | |
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Concoct \Con*coct"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Concocted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Concocting}.] [L. concoctus, p. p. of concoquere to cook together, to digest, mature; con- + coquere to cook. See {Cook}.] 1. To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. [Obs.] Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates. --Cheyne. 2. To purify or refine chemically. [Obs.] --Thomson. 3. To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage. 4. To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot. He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune. --Hayward. 5. To mature or perfect; to ripen. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
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Concoct \Con*coct"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Concocted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Concocting}.] [L. concoctus, p. p. of concoquere to cook together, to digest, mature; con- + coquere to cook. See {Cook}.] 1. To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. [Obs.] Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates. --Cheyne. 2. To purify or refine chemically. [Obs.] --Thomson. 3. To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage. 4. To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot. He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune. --Hayward. 5. To mature or perfect; to ripen. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
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Concocter \Con*coct"er\, n. One who concocts. | |
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Concoct \Con*coct"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Concocted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Concocting}.] [L. concoctus, p. p. of concoquere to cook together, to digest, mature; con- + coquere to cook. See {Cook}.] 1. To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. [Obs.] Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates. --Cheyne. 2. To purify or refine chemically. [Obs.] --Thomson. 3. To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage. 4. To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot. He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune. --Hayward. 5. To mature or perfect; to ripen. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
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Concoction \Con*coc"tion\, n. [L. concoctio.] 1. A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion. [Obs.] 2. The act of concocting or preparing by combining different ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared. 3. The act of digesting in the mind; planning or devising; rumination. --Donne. 4. (Med.) Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition. [Obs.] 5. The act of perfecting or maturing. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
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Concoctive \Con*coct"ive\, a. Having the power of digesting or ripening; digestive. Hence the concoctive powers, with various art, Subdue the cruder aliments to chyle. --J. Armstrong. | |
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Concuss \Con*cuss"\, v. t. [L. concussus, p. p. of concutere. See {Concussion}.] 1. To shake or agitate. [bd]Concussed with uncertainty.[b8] --Daniel. 2. (Law) To force (a person) to do something, or give up something, by intimidation; to coerce. --Wharton. | |
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Concussation \Con`cus*sa"tion\, n. A violent shock or agitation. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall. | |
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Concussion \Con*cus"sion\, n. [L. concussio, fr. concutere, concussum, to shake violenty; con- + quatere to shake. See {Cashier}, {Quash}.] 1. A shaking or agitation; a shock; caused by the collision of two bodies. It is believed that great ringing of bells, in populous cities, hath dissipated pestilent air; which may be from the concussion of the air. --Bacon. 2. (Med.) A condition of lowered functional activity, without visible structural change, produced in an organ by a shock, as by fall or blow; as, a concussion of the brain. 3. (Civil Law) The unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to yield up something of value. Then concussion, rapine, pilleries, Their catalogue of accusations fill. --Daniel. {Concussion fuse} (Mil.), one that is ignited by the concussion of the shell when it strikes. Syn: See {Shock}. | |
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Concussion \Con*cus"sion\, n. [L. concussio, fr. concutere, concussum, to shake violenty; con- + quatere to shake. See {Cashier}, {Quash}.] 1. A shaking or agitation; a shock; caused by the collision of two bodies. It is believed that great ringing of bells, in populous cities, hath dissipated pestilent air; which may be from the concussion of the air. --Bacon. 2. (Med.) A condition of lowered functional activity, without visible structural change, produced in an organ by a shock, as by fall or blow; as, a concussion of the brain. 3. (Civil Law) The unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to yield up something of value. Then concussion, rapine, pilleries, Their catalogue of accusations fill. --Daniel. {Concussion fuse} (Mil.), one that is ignited by the concussion of the shell when it strikes. Syn: See {Shock}. | |
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Fuze \Fuze\, n. A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See {Fuse}, n. {Chemical fuze}, a fuze in which substances separated until required for action are then brought into contact, and uniting chemically, produce explosion. {Concussion fuze}, a fuze ignited by the striking of the projectile. {Electric fuze}, a fuze which is ignited by heat or a spark produced by an electric current. {Friction fuze}, a fuze which is ignited by the heat evolved by friction. {Percussion fuze}, a fuze in which the ignition is produced by a blow on some fulminating compound. {Time fuze}, a fuze adapted, either by its length or by the character of its composition, to burn a certain time before producing an explosion. | |
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Concussive \Con*cus"sive\, a. Having the power or quality of shaking or agitating. --Johnson. | |
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Congest \Con*gest"\, v. t. [L. congestus, p. p. of congere to bring together; con- + gerere. See {Gerund}.] 1. To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate. To what will thy congested guilt amount? --Blackmore. 2. (Med.) To cause an overfullness of the blood vessels (esp. the capillaries) of an organ or part. | |
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Congested \Con*gest"ed\, a. 1. (Bot.) Crowded together. --Gray. 2. (Med.) Containing an unnatural accumulation of blood; hyper[91]mic; -- said of any part of the body. | |
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Congestion \Con*ges"tion\ (?; 106), n. [L. congestio: cf. F. congestion.] 1. The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation. [Obs.] The congestion of dead bodies one upon another. --Evelyn. 2. (Med.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyper[ae]mia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs. | |
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Congestive \Con*gest"ive\, a. (Med.) Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever. | |
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Congo group \Con"go group\ [From {Congo red}.] A group of artificial dyes with an affinity for vegetable fibers, so that no mordant is required. Most of them are azo compounds derived from benzidine or tolidine. Called also {benzidine dyes}. | |
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Congo snake \Con"go snake"\ (Zo[94]l.) An amphibian ({Amphiuma means}) of the order {Urodela}, found in the southern United States. See {Amphiuma}. | |
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Conic \Con"ic\, Conical \Con"ic*al\, a. [Gr. [?]: cf. F. conique. See {Cone}.] 1. Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel. 2. Of or pertaining to a cone; as, conic sections. {Conic section} (Geom.), a curved line formed by the intersection of the surface of a right cone and a plane. The conic sections are the parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola. The right lines and the circle which result from certain positions of the plane are sometimes, though not generally included. {Conic sections}, that branch of geometry which treats of the parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola. {Conical pendulum}. See {Pendulum}. {Conical projection}, a method of delineating the surface of a sphere upon a plane surface as if projected upon the surface of a cone; -- much used by makers of maps in Europe. {Conical surface} (Geom.), a surface described by a right line moving along any curve and always passing through a fixed point that is not in the plane of that curve. | |
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Section \Sec"tion\, n. [L. sectio, fr. secare, sectum, to cut; akin to E. saw a cutting instrument: cf. F. section. See {Saw}, and cf. {Scion}, {Dissect}, {Insect}, {Secant}, {Segment}.] 1. The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies. 2. A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice. Specifically: (a) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character [sect], often used to denote such a division. It is hardly possible to give a distinct view of his several arguments in distinct sections. --Locke. (b) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct. The extreme section of one class consists of bigoted dotards, the extreme section of the other consists of shallow and reckless empirics. --Macaulay. (c) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and pre[89]mption laws. 3. (Geom.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point. 4. (Nat. Hist.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign [sect]. 5. (Mus.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See {Phrase}. 6. The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile. Note: In mechanical drawing, as in these Illustrations of a cannon, a longitudinal section (a) usually represents the object as cut through its center lengthwise and vertically; a cross or transverse section (b), as cut crosswise and vertically; and a horizontal section (c), as cut through its center horizontally. Oblique sections are made at various angles. In architecture, a vertical section is a drawing showing the interior, the thickness of the walls, ets., as if made on a vertical plane passed through a building. {Angular sections} (Math.), a branch of analysis which treats of the relations of sines, tangents, etc., of arcs to the sines, tangents, etc., of their multiples or of their parts. [R.] {Conic sections}. (Geom.) See under {Conic}. {Section liner} (Drawing), an instrument to aid in drawing a series of equidistant parallel lines, -- used in representing sections. {Thin sections}, a section or slice, as of mineral, animal, or vegetable substance, thin enough to be transparent, and used for study under the microscope. Syn: Part; portion; division. Usage: {Section}, {Part}. The English more commonly apply the word section to a part or portion of a body of men; as, a section of the clergy, a small section of the Whigs, etc. In the United States this use is less common, but another use, unknown or but little known in England, is very frequent, as in the phrases [bd]the eastern section of our country,[b8] etc., the same sense being also given to the adjective sectional as, sectional feelings, interests, etc. | |
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Conic \Con"ic\, Conical \Con"ic*al\, a. [Gr. [?]: cf. F. conique. See {Cone}.] 1. Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel. 2. Of or pertaining to a cone; as, conic sections. {Conic section} (Geom.), a curved line formed by the intersection of the surface of a right cone and a plane. The conic sections are the parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola. The right lines and the circle which result from certain positions of the plane are sometimes, though not generally included. {Conic sections}, that branch of geometry which treats of the parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola. {Conical pendulum}. See {Pendulum}. {Conical projection}, a method of delineating the surface of a sphere upon a plane surface as if projected upon the surface of a cone; -- much used by makers of maps in Europe. {Conical surface} (Geom.), a surface described by a right line moving along any curve and always passing through a fixed point that is not in the plane of that curve. | |
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Mathematics \Math`e*mat"ics\, n. [F. math[82]matiques, pl., L. mathematica, sing., Gr. [?] (sc. [?]) science. See {Mathematic}, and {-ics}.] That science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities or magnitudes, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; the science of spatial and quantitative relations. Note: Mathematics embraces three departments, namely: 1. {Arithmetic}. 2. {Geometry}, including {Trigonometry} and {Conic Sections}. 3. {Analysis}, in which letters are used, including {Algebra}, {Analytical Geometry}, and {Calculus}. Each of these divisions is divided into pure or abstract, which considers magnitude or quantity abstractly, without relation to matter; and mixed or applied, which treats of magnitude as subsisting in material bodies, and is consequently interwoven with physical considerations. | |
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Section \Sec"tion\, n. [L. sectio, fr. secare, sectum, to cut; akin to E. saw a cutting instrument: cf. F. section. See {Saw}, and cf. {Scion}, {Dissect}, {Insect}, {Secant}, {Segment}.] 1. The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies. 2. A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice. Specifically: (a) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character [sect], often used to denote such a division. It is hardly possible to give a distinct view of his several arguments in distinct sections. --Locke. (b) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct. The extreme section of one class consists of bigoted dotards, the extreme section of the other consists of shallow and reckless empirics. --Macaulay. (c) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and pre[89]mption laws. 3. (Geom.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point. 4. (Nat. Hist.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign [sect]. 5. (Mus.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See {Phrase}. 6. The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile. Note: In mechanical drawing, as in these Illustrations of a cannon, a longitudinal section (a) usually represents the object as cut through its center lengthwise and vertically; a cross or transverse section (b), as cut crosswise and vertically; and a horizontal section (c), as cut through its center horizontally. Oblique sections are made at various angles. In architecture, a vertical section is a drawing showing the interior, the thickness of the walls, ets., as if made on a vertical plane passed through a building. {Angular sections} (Math.), a branch of analysis which treats of the relations of sines, tangents, etc., of arcs to the sines, tangents, etc., of their multiples or of their parts. [R.] {Conic sections}. (Geom.) See under {Conic}. {Section liner} (Drawing), an instrument to aid in drawing a series of equidistant parallel lines, -- used in representing sections. {Thin sections}, a section or slice, as of mineral, animal, or vegetable substance, thin enough to be transparent, and used for study under the microscope. Syn: Part; portion; division. Usage: {Section}, {Part}. The English more commonly apply the word section to a part or portion of a body of men; as, a section of the clergy, a small section of the Whigs, etc. In the United States this use is less common, but another use, unknown or but little known in England, is very frequent, as in the phrases [bd]the eastern section of our country,[b8] etc., the same sense being also given to the adjective sectional as, sectional feelings, interests, etc. | |
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Conic \Con"ic\, Conical \Con"ic*al\, a. [Gr. [?]: cf. F. conique. See {Cone}.] 1. Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel. 2. Of or pertaining to a cone; as, conic sections. {Conic section} (Geom.), a curved line formed by the intersection of the surface of a right cone and a plane. The conic sections are the parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola. The right lines and the circle which result from certain positions of the plane are sometimes, though not generally included. {Conic sections}, that branch of geometry which treats of the parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola. {Conical pendulum}. See {Pendulum}. {Conical projection}, a method of delineating the surface of a sphere upon a plane surface as if projected upon the surface of a cone; -- much used by makers of maps in Europe. {Conical surface} (Geom.), a surface described by a right line moving along any curve and always passing through a fixed point that is not in the plane of that curve. | |
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Mathematics \Math`e*mat"ics\, n. [F. math[82]matiques, pl., L. mathematica, sing., Gr. [?] (sc. [?]) science. See {Mathematic}, and {-ics}.] That science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities or magnitudes, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; the science of spatial and quantitative relations. Note: Mathematics embraces three departments, namely: 1. {Arithmetic}. 2. {Geometry}, including {Trigonometry} and {Conic Sections}. 3. {Analysis}, in which letters are used, including {Algebra}, {Analytical Geometry}, and {Calculus}. Each of these divisions is divided into pure or abstract, which considers magnitude or quantity abstractly, without relation to matter; and mixed or applied, which treats of magnitude as subsisting in material bodies, and is consequently interwoven with physical considerations. | |
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Conject \Con*ject"\, v. t. [L. conjectus, p. p. of conjicere. See {Conjecture}, n.] To throw together, or to throw. [Obs.] --Bp. Montagu. | |
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Conject \Con*ject"\, v. t. To conjecture; also, to plan. [Obs.] | |
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Conjector \Con*ject"or\, n. [L.] One who guesses or conjectures. [Obs.] A great conjector at other men by their writings. --Milton. | |
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Conjecturable \Con*jec"tur*a*ble\ (?; 135), a. Capable of being conjectured or guessed. | |
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Conjectural \Con*jec"tur*al\, a. [L. conjecturalis: cf. F. conjectural.] Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful. And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me. --Shak. A slight expense of conjectural analogy. --Hugh Miller. Who or what such editor may be, must remain conjectural. --Carlyle. | |
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Conjecturalist \Con*jec"tur*al*ist\, n. A conjecturer. [R.] --Month. rev. | |
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Conjecturally \Con*jec`tur*al"ly\, n. That which depends upon guess; guesswork. [R.] --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Conjecturally \Con*jec`tur*al*ly\, adv. In a conjectural manner; by way of conjecture. --Boyle. | |
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Conjecture \Con*jec"ture\ (; 135?), n. [L. conjectura, fr. conjicere, conjectum, to throw together, infer, conjecture; con- + jacere to throw: cf. F. conjecturer. See {Jet} a shooting forth.] An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion. He [Herodotus] would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. --Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. --Milton. | |
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Conjecture \Con*jec"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conjectured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Conjecturing}.] [Cf. F. conjecturer. Cf. {Conject}.] To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning. Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be. --South. | |
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Conjecture \Con*jec"ture\, v. i. To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine. | |
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Conjecture \Con*jec"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conjectured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Conjecturing}.] [Cf. F. conjecturer. Cf. {Conject}.] To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning. Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be. --South. | |
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Conjecturer \Con*jec"tur*er\, n. One who conjectures. --Hobbes. | |
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Conjecture \Con*jec"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conjectured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Conjecturing}.] [Cf. F. conjecturer. Cf. {Conject}.] To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning. Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be. --South. | |
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Conjugal \Con"ju*gal\, a. [L. conjugalis, fr. conjux husband, wife, consort, fr. conjungere to unite, join in marriage. See {Conjoin}.] Belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial. [bd]Conjugal affection.[b8] --Milton. | |
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Conjugality \Con`ju*gal"i*ty\, n. The conjugal state; sexual intercourse. [R.] --Milton. | |
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Conjugally \Con"ju*gal*ly\, adv. In a conjugal manner; matrimonially; connubially. | |
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Conjugate \Con"ju*gate\, a. [L. conjugatus, p. p. or conjugare to unite; con- + jugare to join, yoke, marry, jugum yoke; akin to jungere to join. See {Join}.] 1. United in pairs; yoked together; coupled. 2. (Bot.) In single pairs; coupled. 3. (Chem.) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one. [R.] 4. (Gram.) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; -- said of words. 5. (Math.) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc. {Conjugate axis of a hyperbola} (Math.), the line through the center of the curve, perpendicular to the line through the two foci. {Conjugate diameters} (Conic Sections), two diameters of an ellipse or hyperbola such that each bisects all chords drawn parallel to the other. {Conjugate focus} (Opt.) See under {Focus}. {Conjugate mirrors} (Optics), two mirrors so placed that rays from the focus of one are received at the focus of the other, especially two concave mirrors so placed that rays proceeding from the principal focus of one and reflected in a parallel beam are received upon the other and brought to the principal focus. {Conjugate point} (Geom.), an acnode. See {Acnode}, and {Double point}. {Self-conjugate triangle} (Conic Sections), a triangle each of whose vertices is the pole of the opposite side with reference to a conic. | |
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Conjugate \Con"ju*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conjugated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Conjugating}.] 1. To unite in marriage; to join. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton. 2. (Gram.) To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumed in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons. | |
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Conjugate \Con"ju*gate\, v. i. (Biol.) To unite in a kind of sexual union, as two or more cells or individuals among the more simple plants and animals. | |
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Conjugate \Con`ju*gate\, n. [L. conjugatum a combining, etymological relationship.] 1. A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification. We have learned, in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed. --Abp. Bramhall. 2. (Chem.) A complex radical supposed to act the part of a single radical. [R.] | |
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Axis \Ax"is\, n.; pl. {Axes}. [L. axis axis, axle. See {Axle}.] A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged. 2. (Math.) A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center. 3. (Bot.) The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body. --Gray. 4. (Anat.) (a) The second vertebra of the neck, or {vertebra dentata}. (b) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon. 5. (Crystallog.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded. 6. (Fine Arts) The primary or secondary central line of any design. {Anticlinal axis} (Geol.), a line or ridge from which the strata slope downward on the two opposite sides. {Synclinal axis}, a line from which the strata slope upward in opposite directions, so as to form a valley. {Axis cylinder} (Anat.), the neuraxis or essential, central substance of a nerve fiber; -- called also {axis band}, {axial fiber}, and {cylinder axis}. {Axis in peritrochio}, the wheel and axle, one of the mechanical powers. {Axis of a curve} (Geom.), a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords of a curve; called a {principal axis}, when cutting them at right angles, in which case it divides the curve into two symmetrical portions, as in the parabola, which has one such axis, the ellipse, which has two, or the circle, which has an infinite number. The two axes of the ellipse are the {major axis} and the {minor axis}, and the two axes of the hyperbola are the {transverse axis} and the {conjugate axis}. {Axis of a lens}, the straight line passing through its center and perpendicular to its surfaces. {Axis of a} {telescope [or] microscope}, the straight line with which coincide the axes of the several lenses which compose it. {Axes of co[94]rdinates in a plane}, two straight lines intersecting each other, to which points are referred for the purpose of determining their relative position: they are either rectangular or oblique. {Axes of co[94]rdinates in space}, the three straight lines in which the co[94]rdinate planes intersect each other. {Axis of a balance}, that line about which it turns. {Axis of oscillation}, of a pendulum, a right line passing through the center about which it vibrates, and perpendicular to the plane of vibration. {Axis of polarization}, the central line around which the prismatic rings or curves are arranged. --Brewster. {Axis of revolution} (Descriptive Geom.), a straight line about which some line or plane is revolved, so that the several points of the line or plane shall describe circles with their centers in the fixed line, and their planes perpendicular to it, the line describing a surface of revolution, and the plane a solid of revolution. {Axis of symmetry} (Geom.), any line in a plane figure which divides the figure into two such parts that one part, when folded over along the axis, shall coincide with the other part. {Axis of the} {equator, ecliptic, horizon} (or other circle considered with reference to the sphere on which it lies), the diameter of the sphere which is perpendicular to the plane of the circle. --Hutton. {Axis of the Ionic capital} (Arch.), a line passing perpendicularly through the middle of the eye of the volute. {Neutral axis} (Mech.), the line of demarcation between the horizontal elastic forces of tension and compression, exerted by the fibers in any cross section of a girder. {Optic axis of a crystal}, the direction in which a ray of transmitted light suffers no double refraction. All crystals, not of the isometric system, are either uniaxial or biaxial. {Optic axis}, {Visual axis} (Opt.), the straight line passing through the center of the pupil, and perpendicular to the surface of the eye. {Radical axis of two circles} (Geom.), the straight line perpendicular to the line joining their centers and such that the tangents from any point of it to the two circles shall be equal to each other. {Spiral axis} (Arch.), the axis of a twisted column drawn spirally in order to trace the circumvolutions without. {Axis of abscissas} and {Axis of ordinates}. See {Abscissa}. | |
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Conjugate \Con"ju*gate\, a. [L. conjugatus, p. p. or conjugare to unite; con- + jugare to join, yoke, marry, jugum yoke; akin to jungere to join. See {Join}.] 1. United in pairs; yoked together; coupled. 2. (Bot.) In single pairs; coupled. 3. (Chem.) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one. [R.] 4. (Gram.) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; -- said of words. 5. (Math.) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc. {Conjugate axis of a hyperbola} (Math.), the line through the center of the curve, perpendicular to the line through the two foci. {Conjugate diameters} (Conic Sections), two diameters of an ellipse or hyperbola such that each bisects all chords drawn parallel to the other. {Conjugate focus} (Opt.) See under {Focus}. {Conjugate mirrors} (Optics), two mirrors so placed that rays from the focus of one are received at the focus of the other, especially two concave mirrors so placed that rays proceeding from the principal focus of one and reflected in a parallel beam are received upon the other and brought to the principal focus. {Conjugate point} (Geom.), an acnode. See {Acnode}, and {Double point}. {Self-conjugate triangle} (Conic Sections), a triangle each of whose vertices is the pole of the opposite side with reference to a conic. | |
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Diameter \Di*am"e*ter\, n. [F. diam[8a]tre, L. diametros, fr. Gr. [?]; dia` through + [?] measure. See {Meter}.] 1. (Geom.) (a) Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve. (b) A diametral plane. 2. The length of a straight line through the center of an object from side to side; width; thickness; as, the diameter of a tree or rock. Note: In an elongated object the diameter is usually taken at right angles to the longer axis. 3. (Arch.) The distance through the lower part of the shaft of a column, used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. See {Module}. {Conjugate diameters}. See under {Conjugate}. | |
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Conjugate \Con"ju*gate\, a. [L. conjugatus, p. p. or conjugare to unite; con- + jugare to join, yoke, marry, jugum yoke; akin to jungere to join. See {Join}.] 1. United in pairs; yoked together; coupled. 2. (Bot.) In single pairs; coupled. 3. (Chem.) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one. [R.] 4. (Gram.) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; -- said of words. 5. (Math.) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc. {Conjugate axis of a hyperbola} (Math.), the line through the center of the curve, perpendicular to the line through the two foci. {Conjugate diameters} (Conic Sections), two diameters of an ellipse or hyperbola such that each bisects all chords drawn parallel to the other. {Conjugate focus} (Opt.) See under {Focus}. {Conjugate mirrors} (Optics), two mirrors so placed that rays from the focus of one are received at the focus of the other, especially two concave mirrors so placed that rays proceeding from the principal focus of one and reflected in a parallel beam are received upon the other and brought to the principal focus. {Conjugate point} (Geom.), an acnode. See {Acnode}, and {Double point}. {Self-conjugate triangle} (Conic Sections), a triangle each of whose vertices is the pole of the opposite side with reference to a conic. | |
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Focus \Fo"cus\, n.; pl. E. {Focuses}, L. {Foci}. [L. focus hearth, fireplace; perh. akin to E. bake. Cf. {Curfew}, {Fuel}, {Fusil} the firearm.] 1. (Opt.) A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror. 2. (Geom.) A point so related to a conic section and certain straight line called the directrix that the ratio of the distace between any point of the curve and the focus to the distance of the same point from the directrix is constant. Note: Thus, in the ellipse FGHKLM, A is the focus and CD the directrix, when the ratios FA:FE, GA:GD, MA:MC, etc., are all equal. So in the hyperbola, A is the focus and CD the directrix when the ratio HA:HK is constant for all points of the curve; and in the parabola, A is the focus and CD the directrix when the ratio BA:BC is constant. In the ellipse this ratio is less than unity, in the parabola equal to unity, and in the hyperbola greater than unity. The ellipse and hyperbola have each two foci, and two corresponding directrixes, and the parabola has one focus and one directrix. In the ellipse the sum of the two lines from any point of the curve to the two foci is constant; that is: AG+GB=AH+HB; and in the hyperbola the difference of the corresponding lines is constant. The diameter which passes through the foci of the ellipse is the major axis. The diameter which being produced passes through the foci of the hyperbola is the transverse axis. The middle point of the major or the transverse axis is the center of the curve. Certain other curves, as the lemniscate and the Cartesian ovals, have points called foci, possessing properties similar to those of the foci of conic sections. In an ellipse, rays of light coming from one focus, and reflected from the curve, proceed in lines directed toward the other; in an hyperbola, in lines directed from the other; in a parabola, rays from the focus, after reflection at the curve, proceed in lines parallel to the axis. Thus rays from A in the ellipse are reflected to B; rays from A in the hyperbola are reflected toward L and M away from B. 3. A central point; a point of concentration. {Aplanatic focus}. (Opt.) See under {Aplanatic}. {Conjugate focus} (Opt.), the focus for rays which have a sensible divergence, as from a near object; -- so called because the positions of the object and its image are interchangeable. {Focus tube} (Phys.), a vacuum tube for R[d2]ntgen rays in which the cathode rays are focused upon the anticathode, for intensifying the effect. {Principal, [or] Solar}, {focus} (Opt.), the focus for parallel rays. | |
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Conjugate \Con"ju*gate\, a. [L. conjugatus, p. p. or conjugare to unite; con- + jugare to join, yoke, marry, jugum yoke; akin to jungere to join. See {Join}.] 1. United in pairs; yoked together; coupled. 2. (Bot.) In single pairs; coupled. 3. (Chem.) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one. [R.] 4. (Gram.) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; -- said of words. 5. (Math.) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc. {Conjugate axis of a hyperbola} (Math.), the line through the center of the curve, perpendicular to the line through the two foci. {Conjugate diameters} (Conic Sections), two diameters of an ellipse or hyperbola such that each bisects all chords drawn parallel to the other. {Conjugate focus} (Opt.) See under {Focus}. {Conjugate mirrors} (Optics), two mirrors so placed that rays from the focus of one are received at the focus of the other, especially two concave mirrors so placed that rays proceeding from the principal focus of one and reflected in a parallel beam are received upon the other and brought to the principal focus. {Conjugate point} (Geom.), an acnode. See {Acnode}, and {Double point}. {Self-conjugate triangle} (Conic Sections), a triangle each of whose vertices is the pole of the opposite side with reference to a conic. | |
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Conjugate \Con"ju*gate\, a. [L. conjugatus, p. p. or conjugare to unite; con- + jugare to join, yoke, marry, jugum yoke; akin to jungere to join. See {Join}.] 1. United in pairs; yoked together; coupled. 2. (Bot.) In single pairs; coupled. 3. (Chem.) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one. [R.] 4. (Gram.) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; -- said of words. 5. (Math.) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc. {Conjugate axis of a hyperbola} (Math.), the line through the center of the curve, perpendicular to the line through the two foci. {Conjugate diameters} (Conic Sections), two diameters of an ellipse or hyperbola such that each bisects all chords drawn parallel to the other. {Conjugate focus} (Opt.) See under {Focus}. {Conjugate mirrors} (Optics), two mirrors so placed that rays from the focus of one are received at the focus of the other, especially two concave mirrors so placed that rays proceeding from the principal focus of one and reflected in a parallel beam are received upon the other and brought to the principal focus. {Conjugate point} (Geom.), an acnode. See {Acnode}, and {Double point}. {Self-conjugate triangle} (Conic Sections), a triangle each of whose vertices is the pole of the opposite side with reference to a conic. | |
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Conjugate \Con"ju*gate\, a. [L. conjugatus, p. p. or conjugare to unite; con- + jugare to join, yoke, marry, jugum yoke; akin to jungere to join. See {Join}.] 1. United in pairs; yoked together; coupled. 2. (Bot.) In single pairs; coupled. 3. (Chem.) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one. [R.] 4. (Gram.) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; -- said of words. 5. (Math.) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc. {Conjugate axis of a hyperbola} (Math.), the line through the center of the curve, perpendicular to the line through the two foci. {Conjugate diameters} (Conic Sections), two diameters of an ellipse or hyperbola such that each bisects all chords drawn parallel to the other. {Conjugate focus} (Opt.) See under {Focus}. {Conjugate mirrors} (Optics), two mirrors so placed that rays from the focus of one are received at the focus of the other, especially two concave mirrors so placed that rays proceeding from the principal focus of one and reflected in a parallel beam are received upon the other and brought to the principal focus. {Conjugate point} (Geom.), an acnode. See {Acnode}, and {Double point}. {Self-conjugate triangle} (Conic Sections), a triangle each of whose vertices is the pole of the opposite side with reference to a conic. | |
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Conjugate \Con"ju*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conjugated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Conjugating}.] 1. To unite in marriage; to join. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton. 2. (Gram.) To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumed in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons. | |
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Conjugate \Con"ju*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conjugated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Conjugating}.] 1. To unite in marriage; to join. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton. 2. (Gram.) To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumed in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons. | |
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Conjugation \Con`ju*ga"tion\, n. [L. conjugatio conjugation (in senses 1 & 3).] 1. the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage. [Obs.] Mixtures and conjugations of atoms. --Bentley. 2. Two things conjoined; a pair; a couple. [Obs.] The sixth conjugations or pair of nerves. --Sir T. Browne. 3. (Gram.) (a) The act of conjugating a verb or giving in order its various parts and inflections. (b) A scheme in which are arranged all the parts of a verb. (c) A class of verbs conjugated in the same manner. 4. (Biol.) A kind of sexual union; -- applied to a blending of the contents of two or more cells or individuals in some plants and lower animals, by which new spores or germs are developed. | |
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Conjugational \Con`ju*ga"tion*al\, a. relating to conjugation. --Ellis. | |
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Conjugial \Con*ju"gi*al\, a. [L. conjugialis, fr. conjugium. Cf. {Conjugal}.] Conjugal. [R.] --Swedenborg. | |
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Conquassate \Con*quas"sate\, v. t. [L. conquassatus, p. p. of conquassare.] To shake; to agitate. [Obs.] --Harvey. -- {Con`quas*sa"tion}, n. [Obs.] | |
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Conquassate \Con*quas"sate\, v. t. [L. conquassatus, p. p. of conquassare.] To shake; to agitate. [Obs.] --Harvey. -- {Con`quas*sa"tion}, n. [Obs.] | |
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Conquest \Con"quest\, n. [OF. conquest, conqueste, F. conqu[88]te, LL. conquistum, conquista, prop. p. p. from L. conquirere. See {Conquer}.] 1. The act or process of conquering, or acquiring by force; the act of overcoming or subduing opposition by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory. In joys of conquest he resigns his breath. --Addison. Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country. --Prescott. 2. That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral. Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? --Shak. 3. (Feudal Law) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition. --Blackstone. 4. The act of gaining or regaining by successful struggle; as, the conquest of liberty or peace. {The Conquest} (Eng. Hist.), the subjugation of England by William of Normandy in 1066. | |
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Conscious \Con"scious\, a. [L. conscius; con- + scire to know. See {Conscience}.] 1. Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations. Some are thinking or conscious beings, or have a power of thought. --I. Watts. 2. Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible. Her conscious heart imputed suspicion where none could have been felt. --Hawthorne. The man who breathes most healthilly is least conscious of his own breathing. --De Quincey. 3. Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; as, conscious guilt. With conscious terrors vex me round. --Milton. Syn: Aware; apprised; sensible; felt; known. | |
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Consciously \Con"scious*ly\, adv. In a conscious manner; with knowledge of one's own mental operations or actions. | |
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Consciousness \Con"scious*ness\, n. 1. The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc. Consciousness is thus, on the one hand, the recognition by the mind or [bd]ego[b8] of its acts and affections; -- in other words, the self-affirmation that certain modifications are known by me, and that these modifications are mine. --Sir W. Hamilton. 2. Immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. See the Note under {Attention}. Annihilate the consciousness of the object, you annihilate the consciousness of the operation. --Sir W. Hamilton. And, when the steam Which overflowed the soul had passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left. . . . images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and can not be destroyed. --Wordsworth. The consciousness of wrong brought with it the consciousness of weakness. --Froude. 3. Feeling, persuasion, or expectation; esp., inward sense of guilt or innocence. [R.] An honest mind is not in the power of a dishonest: to break its peace there must be some guilt or consciousness. --Pope. | |
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Consecrate \Con"se*crate\, a. [L. consceratus, p. p. of conscerare to conscerate; con- + sacrare to consecrate, sacer sacred. See {Sacred}.] Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. --Bacon. | |
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Consecrate \Con"se*crate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Consecrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consecrating}.] 1. To make, or declare to be, sacred; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service or worship of God; as, to consecrate a church; to give (one's self) unreservedly, as to the service of God. One day in the week is . . . consecrated to a holy rest. --Sharp. 2. To set apart to a sacred office; as, to consecrate a bishop. Thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. --Ex. xxix. 9. 3. To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor. 4. To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time. --Burke. Syn: See {Addict}. | |
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Consecrate \Con"se*crate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Consecrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consecrating}.] 1. To make, or declare to be, sacred; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service or worship of God; as, to consecrate a church; to give (one's self) unreservedly, as to the service of God. One day in the week is . . . consecrated to a holy rest. --Sharp. 2. To set apart to a sacred office; as, to consecrate a bishop. Thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. --Ex. xxix. 9. 3. To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor. 4. To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time. --Burke. Syn: See {Addict}. | |
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Consecrater \Con"se*cra`ter\, n. Consecrator. | |
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Consecrator \Con"se*cra`tor\, n. [L.] One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes. [Written also {consecrater}.] | |
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Consecrater \Con"se*cra`ter\, n. Consecrator. | |
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Consecrator \Con"se*cra`tor\, n. [L.] One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes. [Written also {consecrater}.] | |
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Consecrate \Con"se*crate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Consecrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consecrating}.] 1. To make, or declare to be, sacred; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service or worship of God; as, to consecrate a church; to give (one's self) unreservedly, as to the service of God. One day in the week is . . . consecrated to a holy rest. --Sharp. 2. To set apart to a sacred office; as, to consecrate a bishop. Thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. --Ex. xxix. 9. 3. To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor. 4. To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time. --Burke. Syn: See {Addict}. | |
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Consecration \Con`se*cra"tion\, n. [L. consecratio: cf. F. cons[82]cration.] The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication. Until the days of your consecration be at an end. --Lev. viii. 33. Consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemny declares it so. --South. | |
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Consecrator \Con"se*cra`tor\, n. [L.] One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes. [Written also {consecrater}.] | |
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Consecratory \Con"se*cra*to*ry\ (? [or] ?), a. Of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory. The consecratory prayer. --Bp. Burnet. | |
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Consectaneous \Con`sec*ta"ne*ous\, a. [L. consectaneus.] Following as a matter of course. --Blount. | |
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Consectary \Con"sec*ta*ry\, n. That which follows by consequence or is logically deducible; deduction from premises; corollary. [R.] --Milton. | |
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Consectary \Con"sec*ta*ry\, a. [L. consectarius, fr. consectari to follow after eagerly; con- + sectari to follow eagerly, fr. sequi to follow.] Following by consequence; consequent; deducible. [R.] [bd]Consectary impieties.[b8] --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Consecute \Con"se*cute\, v. t. To follow closely; to endeavor to overtake; to pursue. [Obs.] --Bp. Burnet. | |
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Consecution \Con`se*cu"tion\, n. [L. consecutio. See {Consequent}.] 1. A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence. --Sir M. Hale. 2. A succession or series of any kind. [Obs.] --Sir I. Newton. {Month of consecution} (Astron.), a month as reckoned from one conjunction of the moon with the sun to another. | |
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Consecutive \Con*sec"u*tive\, a. [Cf. F. cons[82]cutif. See {Consequent}.] 1. Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years. 2. Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding. The actions of a man consecutive to volition. --Locke. 3. (Mus.) Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden. {Consecutive chords} (Mus.), chords of the same kind succeeding one another without interruption. | |
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Consecutive \Con*sec"u*tive\, a. [Cf. F. cons[82]cutif. See {Consequent}.] 1. Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years. 2. Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding. The actions of a man consecutive to volition. --Locke. 3. (Mus.) Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden. {Consecutive chords} (Mus.), chords of the same kind succeeding one another without interruption. | |
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Consecutively \Con*sec"u*tive*ly\, adv. In a consecutive manner; by way of sequence; successively. | |
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Consecutiveness \Con*sec"u*tive*ness\, n. The state or quality of being consecutive. | |
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Consequence \Con"se*quence\, n. [L., consequentia: cf. F. cons[82]quence. See {Consequent}.] 1. That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result. Shun to taste, And shun the bitter consequence. --Milton. 2. (Logic) A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference. 3. Chain of causes and effects; consecution. Such fatal consequence unites us three. --Milton. Link follows link by necessary consequence. --Coleridge. 4. Importance with respect to what comes after; power to influence or produce an effect; value; moment; rank; distinction. It is a matter of small consequence. --Shak. A sense of your own worth and consequence. --Cowper. {In consequence}, hence; for this cause. {In consequence of}, by reason of; as the effect of. Syn: Effect; result; end. See {Effect}. | |
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Consequencing \Con"se*quen`cing\, n. Drawing inference. [R.] --Milton. | |
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Consequent \Con"se*quent\, a. [L. consequens, -entis, p. pr. of consequi to follow; con- + sequi to follow: cf. F. cons[82]quent. See {Second}, and cf. {Consecution}.] 1. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect. The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal. --Locke. 2. (Logic) Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions. {Consequent points}, {Consequent poles} (Magnetism), a number of poles distributed under certain conditions, along the axis of a magnetized steel bar, which regularly has but the two poles at the extremities. | |
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Consequent \Con"se*quent\, n. 1. That which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect. They were ill-governed, which is always a consequent of ill payment. --Sir J. Davies. 2. (Logic) That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference. 3. (Math.) The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent. | |
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Consequent \Con"se*quent\, a. [L. consequens, -entis, p. pr. of consequi to follow; con- + sequi to follow: cf. F. cons[82]quent. See {Second}, and cf. {Consecution}.] 1. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect. The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal. --Locke. 2. (Logic) Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions. {Consequent points}, {Consequent poles} (Magnetism), a number of poles distributed under certain conditions, along the axis of a magnetized steel bar, which regularly has but the two poles at the extremities. | |
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Consequent \Con"se*quent\, a. [L. consequens, -entis, p. pr. of consequi to follow; con- + sequi to follow: cf. F. cons[82]quent. See {Second}, and cf. {Consecution}.] 1. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect. The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal. --Locke. 2. (Logic) Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions. {Consequent points}, {Consequent poles} (Magnetism), a number of poles distributed under certain conditions, along the axis of a magnetized steel bar, which regularly has but the two poles at the extremities. | |
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Consequential \Con`se*quen"tial\, a. 1. Following as a consequence, result, or logical inference; consequent. All that is revealed in Scripture has a consequential necessity of being believed . . . because it is of divine authority. --Locke. These kind of arguments . . . are highly consequential and concludent to my purpose. --Sir M. Hale. 2. Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See {Consequence}, n., 4. His stately and consequential pace. --Sir W. Scott. {Consequential damage} (Law) (a) Damage so remote as not to be actionable (b) Damage which although remote is actionable. (c) Actionable damage, but not following as an immediate result of an act. | |
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Consequential \Con`se*quen"tial\, a. 1. Following as a consequence, result, or logical inference; consequent. All that is revealed in Scripture has a consequential necessity of being believed . . . because it is of divine authority. --Locke. These kind of arguments . . . are highly consequential and concludent to my purpose. --Sir M. Hale. 2. Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See {Consequence}, n., 4. His stately and consequential pace. --Sir W. Scott. {Consequential damage} (Law) (a) Damage so remote as not to be actionable (b) Damage which although remote is actionable. (c) Actionable damage, but not following as an immediate result of an act. | |
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Damage \Dam"age\, n. [OF. damage, domage, F. dommage, fr. assumed LL. damnaticum, from L. damnum damage. See {Damn}.] 1. Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief. He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage. --Prov. xxvi. 6. Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune. --Bacon. 2. pl. (Law) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another. Note: In common-law action, the jury are the proper judges of damages. {Consequential damage}. See under {Consequential}. {Exemplary damages} (Law), damages imposed by way of example to others. {Nominal damages} (Law), those given for a violation of a right where no actual loss has accrued. {Vindictive damages}, those given specially for the punishment of the wrongdoer. Syn: Mischief; injury; harm; hurt; detriment; evil; ill. See {Mischief}. | |
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Consequentially \Con`se*quen"tial*ly\, adv. 1. With just deduction of consequence; with right connection of ideas; logically. The faculty of writing consequentially. --Addison. 2. By remote consequence; not immediately; eventually; as, to do a thing consequentially. --South. 3. In a regular series; in the order of cause and effect; with logical concatenation; consecutively; continuously. 4. With assumed importance; pompously. | |
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Consequentialness \Con`se*quen"tial*ness\, n. The quality of being consequential. | |
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Consequently \Con"se*quent*ly\, adv. By consequence; by natural or logical sequence or connection. Syn: See {Accordingly}. | |
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Consign \Con*sign"\, v. i. 1. To submit; to surrender or yield one's self. [Obs.] All lovers young, all lovers must Consign to thee, and come to dust. --Shak. 2. To yield consent; to agree; to acquiesce. [Obs.] Augment or alter . . . And we'll consign thereto. --Shak. | |
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Consign \Con*sign"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Consigned} 3; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consigning}.] [F. consigner, L. consignare, -signatu,, to seal or sign; con- + signare, fr. signum mark. See {Sign}.] 1. To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave. At the day of general account, good men are to be consigned over to another state. --Atterbury. 2. To give in charge; to commit; to intrust. Atrides, parting for the Trojan war, Consigned the youthful consort to his care. --Pope. The four evangelists consigned to writing that history. --Addison. 3. (Com.) To send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to consign a cargo or a ship; to consign goods. 4. To assign; to devote; to set apart. The French commander consigned it to the use for which it was intended by the donor. --Dryden. 5. To stamp or impress; to affect. [Obs.] Consign my spirit with great fear. --Jer. Taylor. Syn: To commit; deliver; intrust; resign. See {Commit}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consignatary \Con*sig"na*ta*ry\, n. [Cf. {Consignitary}.] A consignee. [Obs.] --Jenkins. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consignation \Con`sig*na"tion\, n. [L. consignatio written proof, document: cf. F. consignation comsignation.] 1. The act of consigning; the act of delivering or committing to another person, place, or state. [Obs.] So is despair a certain consignation to eternal ruin. --Jer. Taylor. 2. The act of ratifying or establishing, as if by signing; confirmation; ratification. A direct consignation of pardon. --Jer. Taylor. 3. A stamp; an indication; a sign. [Obs.] The most certain consignations of an excellent virtue. --Jer. Taylor. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consignatory \Con*sig"na*to*ry\, n. [Cf. {Consignitary}.] One of several that jointly sign a written instrument, as a treaty. --Fallows. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consignature \Con*sig"na*ture\; 135), n. Joint signature. [R.] --Colgrave. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consign \Con*sign"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Consigned} 3; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consigning}.] [F. consigner, L. consignare, -signatu,, to seal or sign; con- + signare, fr. signum mark. See {Sign}.] 1. To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave. At the day of general account, good men are to be consigned over to another state. --Atterbury. 2. To give in charge; to commit; to intrust. Atrides, parting for the Trojan war, Consigned the youthful consort to his care. --Pope. The four evangelists consigned to writing that history. --Addison. 3. (Com.) To send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to consign a cargo or a ship; to consign goods. 4. To assign; to devote; to set apart. The French commander consigned it to the use for which it was intended by the donor. --Dryden. 5. To stamp or impress; to affect. [Obs.] Consign my spirit with great fear. --Jer. Taylor. Syn: To commit; deliver; intrust; resign. See {Commit}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consignee \Con`sign*ee"\ (?; 277), n. [F. consign[?], p. p. of consigner.] The person to whom goods or other things are consigned; a factor; -- correlative to consignor. Consigner and consignee are used by merchants to express generally the shipper of merchandise, and the person to whom it is addressed, by bill of lading or otherwise. --De Colange. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consignor \Con*sign"or\ (? [or] [?]; 277), n. One who consigns something to another; -- opposed to consignee. [Written also {consigner}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consigner \Con*sign"er\, n. One who consigns. See {Consignor}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consignor \Con*sign"or\ (? [or] [?]; 277), n. One who consigns something to another; -- opposed to consignee. [Written also {consigner}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consigner \Con*sign"er\, n. One who consigns. See {Consignor}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consignificant \Con`sig*nif"i*cant\, a. Having joint or equal signification; synonymous. [R.] --Spelman. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consignification \Con*sig`ni*fi*ca"tion\, n. Joint signification. [R.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consignificative \Con`sig*nif"i*ca*tive\, a. Consignificant; jointly significate. [R.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consignify \Con*sig"ni*fy\, v. t. [Pref. con- + sognify.] To signify or denote in combination with something else. The cipher . . . only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures. --Horne Tooke. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consign \Con*sign"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Consigned} 3; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consigning}.] [F. consigner, L. consignare, -signatu,, to seal or sign; con- + signare, fr. signum mark. See {Sign}.] 1. To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave. At the day of general account, good men are to be consigned over to another state. --Atterbury. 2. To give in charge; to commit; to intrust. Atrides, parting for the Trojan war, Consigned the youthful consort to his care. --Pope. The four evangelists consigned to writing that history. --Addison. 3. (Com.) To send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to consign a cargo or a ship; to consign goods. 4. To assign; to devote; to set apart. The French commander consigned it to the use for which it was intended by the donor. --Dryden. 5. To stamp or impress; to affect. [Obs.] Consign my spirit with great fear. --Jer. Taylor. Syn: To commit; deliver; intrust; resign. See {Commit}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consignment \Con*sign"ment\, n. 1. The act of consigning; consignation. 2. (Com.) The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc. 3. (Com.) That which is consigned; the goods or commodities sent or addressed to a consignee at one time or by one conveyance. To increase your consignments of this valuable branch of national commerce. --Burke. 4. The writing by which anything is consigned. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consignor \Con*sign"or\ (? [or] [?]; 277), n. One who consigns something to another; -- opposed to consignee. [Written also {consigner}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consist \Con*sist"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Consisted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consisting}.] [L. consistere to stand still or firm; con- + sistere to stand, cause to stand, stare to stand: cf. F. consister. See {Stand}.] 1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. --Col. i. 17. 2. To be composed or made up; -- followed by of. The land would consist of plains and valleys. --T. Burnet. 3. To have as its substance or character, or as its foundation; to be; -- followed by in. If their purgation did consist in words. --Shak. A man's life consisteth not in the abudance of the things which he possesseth. --Luke xii. 15. 4. To be consistent or harmonious; to be in accordance; -- formerly used absolutely, now followed by with. This was a consisting story. --Bp. Burnet. Health consists with temperance alone. --Pope. For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist. --Milton. 5. To insist; -- followed by on. [Obs.] --Shak. Syn: {To Consist}, {Consist of}, {Consist in}. Usage: The verb consist is employed chiefly for two purposes, which are marked and distinguished by the prepositions used. When we wish to indicate the parts which unite to compose a thing, we use of; as when we say, [bd]Macaulay's Miscellanies consist chiefly of articles which were first published in the Edinburgh Review.[b8] When we wish to indicate the true nature of a thing, or that on which it depends, we use in; as, [bd]There are some artists whose skill consists in a certain manner which they have affected.[b8] [bd]Our safety consists in a strict adherence to duty.[b8] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consist \Con*sist"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Consisted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consisting}.] [L. consistere to stand still or firm; con- + sistere to stand, cause to stand, stare to stand: cf. F. consister. See {Stand}.] 1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. --Col. i. 17. 2. To be composed or made up; -- followed by of. The land would consist of plains and valleys. --T. Burnet. 3. To have as its substance or character, or as its foundation; to be; -- followed by in. If their purgation did consist in words. --Shak. A man's life consisteth not in the abudance of the things which he possesseth. --Luke xii. 15. 4. To be consistent or harmonious; to be in accordance; -- formerly used absolutely, now followed by with. This was a consisting story. --Bp. Burnet. Health consists with temperance alone. --Pope. For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist. --Milton. 5. To insist; -- followed by on. [Obs.] --Shak. Syn: {To Consist}, {Consist of}, {Consist in}. Usage: The verb consist is employed chiefly for two purposes, which are marked and distinguished by the prepositions used. When we wish to indicate the parts which unite to compose a thing, we use of; as when we say, [bd]Macaulay's Miscellanies consist chiefly of articles which were first published in the Edinburgh Review.[b8] When we wish to indicate the true nature of a thing, or that on which it depends, we use in; as, [bd]There are some artists whose skill consists in a certain manner which they have affected.[b8] [bd]Our safety consists in a strict adherence to duty.[b8] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consistence \Con*sist"ence\, Consistency \Con*sist"en*cy\, n. [Cf. F. consistance.] 1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. --Bacon. We are as water, weak, and of no consistence. --Jer. Taylor. The same form, substance, and consistency. --T. Burnet. 2. A degree of firmness, density, or spissitude. Let the expressed juices be boiled into the consistence of a sirup. --Arbuthnot. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consistence \Con*sist"ence\, Consistency \Con*sist"en*cy\, n. [Cf. F. consistance.] 1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. --Bacon. We are as water, weak, and of no consistence. --Jer. Taylor. The same form, substance, and consistency. --T. Burnet. 2. A degree of firmness, density, or spissitude. Let the expressed juices be boiled into the consistence of a sirup. --Arbuthnot. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consistent \Con*sist"ent\, a. [L. consistens, p. pr.: cf. F. consistant.] 1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. --Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous; compatible; uniform; not contradictory. Show me one that has it in his power To act consistent with himself an hour. --Pope. With reference to such a lord, to serve and to be free are terms not consistent only, but equivalent. --South. 3. Living or acting in conformity with one's belief or professions. It was utterly to be at once a consistent Quaker and a conspirator. --Macaulay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consistently \Con*sist"ent*ly\, adv. In a consistent manner. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consist \Con*sist"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Consisted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consisting}.] [L. consistere to stand still or firm; con- + sistere to stand, cause to stand, stare to stand: cf. F. consister. See {Stand}.] 1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. --Col. i. 17. 2. To be composed or made up; -- followed by of. The land would consist of plains and valleys. --T. Burnet. 3. To have as its substance or character, or as its foundation; to be; -- followed by in. If their purgation did consist in words. --Shak. A man's life consisteth not in the abudance of the things which he possesseth. --Luke xii. 15. 4. To be consistent or harmonious; to be in accordance; -- formerly used absolutely, now followed by with. This was a consisting story. --Bp. Burnet. Health consists with temperance alone. --Pope. For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist. --Milton. 5. To insist; -- followed by on. [Obs.] --Shak. Syn: {To Consist}, {Consist of}, {Consist in}. Usage: The verb consist is employed chiefly for two purposes, which are marked and distinguished by the prepositions used. When we wish to indicate the parts which unite to compose a thing, we use of; as when we say, [bd]Macaulay's Miscellanies consist chiefly of articles which were first published in the Edinburgh Review.[b8] When we wish to indicate the true nature of a thing, or that on which it depends, we use in; as, [bd]There are some artists whose skill consists in a certain manner which they have affected.[b8] [bd]Our safety consists in a strict adherence to duty.[b8] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consistorial \Con`sis*to"ri*al\, a. [Cf. F. consistorial.] Of or pertaining to a consistory. [bd]Consistorial laws.[b8] --Hooker. [bd]Consistorial courts.[b8] --Bp. Hoadley. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consistorian \Con`sis*to"rian\, a. Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consistory \Con*sis"to*ry\ (? or ?; 277) n.; pl. {Consistories}. [L. consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf. F. consistoire, It. consistorio. See {Consist}.] 1. Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council. To council summons all his mighty peers, Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved, A gloomy consistory. --Milton. 2. (Eng. Ch.) The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. --Hook. 3. (R. C. Ch.) An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome. Pius was then hearing of causes in consistory. --Bacon. 4. A church tribunal or governing body. Note: In some churches, as the Dutch Reformed in America, a consistory is composed of the minister and elders of an individual church, corresponding to a Presbyterian church session, and in others, as the Reformed church in France, it is composed of ministers and elders, corresponding to a presbytery. In some Lutheran countries it is a body of clerical and lay officers appointed by the sovereign to superintend ecclesiastical affairs. 5. A civil court of justice. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consistory \Con*sis"to*ry\, a. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a consistory. [bd]To hold consistory session.[b8] --Strype. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consistory \Con*sis"to*ry\ (? or ?; 277) n.; pl. {Consistories}. [L. consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf. F. consistoire, It. consistorio. See {Consist}.] 1. Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council. To council summons all his mighty peers, Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved, A gloomy consistory. --Milton. 2. (Eng. Ch.) The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. --Hook. 3. (R. C. Ch.) An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome. Pius was then hearing of causes in consistory. --Bacon. 4. A church tribunal or governing body. Note: In some churches, as the Dutch Reformed in America, a consistory is composed of the minister and elders of an individual church, corresponding to a Presbyterian church session, and in others, as the Reformed church in France, it is composed of ministers and elders, corresponding to a presbytery. In some Lutheran countries it is a body of clerical and lay officers appointed by the sovereign to superintend ecclesiastical affairs. 5. A civil court of justice. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consociate \Con*so"ci*ate\, v. i. 1. To be allied, confederated, or associated; to coalescence. [R.] --Bentley. 2. To form an ecclesiastical consociation. [U.S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consociate \Con*so"ci*ate\, n. [L. consociatus, p. p. of consociare to associate, unite; con- + sociare to join, unite. See {Social}.] An associate; an accomplice. [Archaic] [bd]Wicked consociates.[b8] --Bp. Hall. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consociate \Con*so"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Consociated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consociating}.] 1. To bring into alliance, confederacy, or relationship; to bring together; to join; to unite. [R.] Join pole to pole, consociate severed worlds. --Mallet. 2. To unite in an ecclesiastical consociation. [U.S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consociate \Con*so"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Consociated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consociating}.] 1. To bring into alliance, confederacy, or relationship; to bring together; to join; to unite. [R.] Join pole to pole, consociate severed worlds. --Mallet. 2. To unite in an ecclesiastical consociation. [U.S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consociate \Con*so"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Consociated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consociating}.] 1. To bring into alliance, confederacy, or relationship; to bring together; to join; to unite. [R.] Join pole to pole, consociate severed worlds. --Mallet. 2. To unite in an ecclesiastical consociation. [U.S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consociation \Con*so`ci*a"tion\, n. [L. consociatio.] 1. Intimate union; fellowship; alliance; companionship; confederation; association; intimacy. A friendly consociation with your kindred elements. --Warburton. 2. A voluntary and permanent council or union of neighboring Congregational churches, for mutual advice and co[94]peration in ecclesiastical matters; a meeting of pastors and delegates from churches thus united. Note: In Connecticut some of the Congregational churhes are associated in consociations and the others in conferences. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Consociational \Con*so`ci*a"tion*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a consociation. [U.S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Plowman \Plow"man\, Ploughman \Plough"man\, n.; pl. {-men}. 1. One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman. --Chaucer. Macaulay. 2. A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer. {Plowman's spikenard} (Bot.), a European composite weed ({Conyza squarrosa}), having fragrant roots. --Dr. Prior. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cyanic \Cy*an"ic\ (s?-?n"?k), a. [Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance: cf. F. cyanique. Cf. {Kyanite}.] 1. Pertaining to, or containing, cyanogen. 2. Of or pertaining to a blue color. {Cyanic acid} (Chem.), an acid, {HOCN}, derived from cyanogen, well known in its salts, but never isolated in the free state. {Cyanic colors} (Bot.), those colors (of flowers) having some tinge of blue; -- opposed to {xanthic colors}. A color of either series may pass into red or white, but not into the opposing color. Red and pure white are more common among flowers of cyanic tendency than in those of the other class. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cynicism \Cyn"i*cism\ (s[icr]n"[icr]*s[icr]z'm), n. The doctrine of the Cynics; the quality of being cynical; the mental state, opinions, or conduct, of a cynic; morose and contemptuous views and opinions. | |
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
congestion When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. | |
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consistently complete [{domain theory}] {boundedly complete}. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Census There are five instances of a census of the Jewish people having been taken. (1.) In the fourth month after the Exodus, when the people were encamped at Sinai. The number of men from twenty years old and upward was then 603,550 (Ex. 38:26). (2.) Another census was made just before the entrance into Canaan, when the number was found to be 601,730, showing thus a small decrease (Num. 26:51). (3.) The next census was in the time of David, when the number, exclusive of the tribes of Levi and Benjamin, was found to be 1,300,000 (2 Sam. 24:9; 1 Chr. 21:5). (4.) Solomon made a census of the foreigners in the land, and found 153,600 able-bodied workmen (2 Chr. 2:17, 18). (5.) After the return from Exile the whole congregation of Israel was numbered, and found to amount to 42,360 (Ezra 2:64). A census was made by the Roman government in the time of our Lord (Luke 2:1). (See {TAXING}.) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Changes of raiment were reckoned among the treasures of rich men (Gen. 45:22; Judg. 14:12, 13; 2 Kings 5:22, 23). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Concision (Gr. katatome; i.e., "mutilation"), a term used by Paul contemptuously of those who were zealots for circumcision (Phil. 3:2). Instead of the warning, "Beware of the circumcision" (peritome) i.e., of the party who pressed on Gentile converts the necessity of still observing that ordinance, he says, "Beware of the concision;" as much as to say, "This circumcision which they vaunt of is in Christ only as the gashings and mutilations of idolatrous heathen." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Consecration the devoting or setting apart of anything to the worship or service of God. The race of Abraham and the tribe of Levi were thus consecrated (Ex. 13:2, 12, 15; Num. 3:12). The Hebrews devoted their fields and cattle, and sometimes the spoils of war, to the Lord (Lev. 27:28, 29). According to the Mosaic law the first-born both of man and beast were consecrated to God. In the New Testament, Christians are regarded as consecrated to the Lord (1 Pet. 2:9). |