An apparatus consisting of a large wheel with spokes, whichwhen turning very rapidly is illuminated by momentary flashes oflight passing through slits in a rotating disk. By properly timingthe succession of flashes the wheel is made to appear to bemotionless, or to rotate more or less slowly in either direction.
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Correspondent
Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable;in accord or agreement; obedient; willing. Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. Hooker. As fast the correspondent passions rise. Thomson.I will be correspondent to command. Shak.
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Focal
Belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point. Focaldistance, or length,of a lens or mirror (Opt.), the distance of thefocus from the surface of the lens or mirror, or more exactly, in thecase of a lens, from its optical center. --Focal distance of atelescope, the distance of the image of an object from the objectglass.
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Muscovado
Pertaining to, or of the nature of, unrefined or raw sugar,obtained from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporating and drainingoff the molasses. Muscovado sugar contains impurities which render itdark colored and moist.
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Melanoscope
An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses suchthat they transmit only red light, so that objects of other colors,as green leaves, appear black when seen through it. It is used forviewing colored flames, to detect the presence of potassium, lithium,etc., by the red light which they emit.
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Reflex
Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitationwithout the necessary intervention of consciousness. Reflex action(Physiol.), any action performed involuntarily in consequence of animpulse or impression transmitted along afferent nerves to a nervecenter, from which it is reflected to an efferent nerve, and so callsinto action certain muscles, organs, or cells.-- Reflex nerve (Physiol.), an excito-motory nerve. See Exito-motory.
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Emulsify
To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reducefrom an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat globules arein a very finely divided state, giving it the semblance of solution;as, the pancreatic juice emulsifies the oily part of food.
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Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff;trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallenbuildings; ruins; débris.What rubbish and what offal! Shak.he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie. Dryden.Rubbish pulley. See Gin block, under Gin.
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Superintend
To have or exercise the charge and oversight of; to overseewith the power of direction; to take care of with authority; tosupervise; as, an officer superintends the building of a ship or theconstruction of a fort.The king may appoint a council, who may superintend the works of thisnature. Bacon.
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Silicic
Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, silica;specifically, designating compounds of silicon; as, silicic acid.Silicic acid (Chem.), an amorphous gelatinous substance, Si(HO)4,very unstable and easily dried to silica, but forming many stablesalts; -- called also orthosilicic, or normal silicic, acid.
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Saxifrage
Any plant of the genus Saxifraga, mostly perennial herbsgrowing in crevices of rocks in mountainous regions. Burnetsaxifrage, a European umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella Saxifraga).-- Golden saxifrage, a low half-sacculent herb (Chrysospleniumoppositifolium) growing in rivulets in Europe; also, C. Americanum,common in the United States. See also under Golden.-- Meadow saxifrage, or Pepper saxifrage. See under Meadow.
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Subsistence department
A staff department of the United States army charged, under thesupervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing tothe army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies,for authorized sales, certain articles of food and other minorstores. It is commanded by any officer of the rank of brigadiergeneral, called commissary general, and the department is popularlycalled the Commissary Department.
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Thysanoptera
A division of insects, considered by some writers a distinctorder, but regarded by others as belonging to the Hemiptera. They areall of small size, and have narrow, broadly fringed wings withrudimentary nervures. Most of the species feed upon the juices ofplants, and some, as those which attack grain, are very injurious tocrops. Called also Physopoda. See Thrips.
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Connote
To imply as an attribute.The word white denotes all white things, as snow, paper, the foamof the sea, etc., and ipmlies, or as it was termed by the schoolmen,connotes, the attribute whiteness. J. S. Mill.
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Nebular
Of or pertaining to nebulæ; of the nature of, or resembling, anebula. Nebular hypothesis, an hypothesis to explain the process offormation of the stars and planets, presented in various forms byKant, Herschel, Laplace, and others. As formed by Laplace, itsupposed the matter of the solar system to have existed originally inthe form of a vast, diffused, revolving nebula, which, graduallycooling and contracting, threw off, in obedience to mechanical andphysical laws, succesive rings of matter, from which subsequently, bythe same laws, were produced the several planets, satellites, andother bodies of the system. The phrase may indicate any hypothesisaccording to which the stars or the bodies of the solar system havebeen evolved from a widely diffused nebulous form of matter.
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Chaja
The crested screamer of Brazil (Palamedea, or Chauna,chavaria), so called in imitation of its notes; -- called alsochauna, and faithful kamichi. It is often domesticated and is usefulin guarding other poultry. See Kamichi.
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Broom
A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep withwhen bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe,which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches,mintue leaves, and large yellow flowers.No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom. Wordsworth.
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Formalist
One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp.,one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly theoutward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit ofreligion. As far a formalist from wisdom sits, In judging eyes, as libertinesfrom wits. Young.
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Quadrate
A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; asquare; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.At which command, the powers militant That stood for heaven, inmighty quadrate joined. Milton.