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of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh. Weigh anchor, cast to starboard. Totten.

A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship. Totten.

ek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed. J. S. Mill.

A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead. Totten.

nce saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low forms.

One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.

To unite, as timbers, by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or face. Totten.

A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. Macaulay.

a plate results from which impressions can be taken with prepared ink. The albertype, phototype, and heliotype are collotypes.

the rope about it. -- To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle gently. Totten. -- To come up to, to rise to; to equal. -- To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit. -- To come upon. (a) To befall. (b) To attack or invade. (c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for support; as, t…

adder (Naut.), the ladder by which officers ascend to, or descend from, the quarter-deck. Totten. -- Companion way (Naut.), a staircase leading to the cabin. -- Knights companions, in certain honorary orders, the members of the lowest grades as distinguished from knights commanders, knights grand cross, and the like.…

Spaniards . . . with great impetuosity, but with so little conduct, that his forces were totally routed. Robertson.

mes. -- Conservation of energy, or Conservation of force (Mech.), the principle that the total energy of any material system is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any action between the parts of the system, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible. Cler…

he quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass. Aristotle says we are not to build certain rules on the contingency of human actions. South.

uals. A certain contribution for the poor saints which are at jerusalem. Rom. xv. 26. Aristotle's actual contributions to the physical sciences. Whewell.

tection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman. I know ye skillful to convoy The total freight of hope and joy. Emerson.

us apearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon.

In the game of craps, a first throw of the dice in which the total is two, three, or twelve, in which case the caster loses.

uth, in history and sciences. Brande & C. By criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant a standard of judging well. Dryden.

a walk one night cross a village. L'Estrange. To go cross lots, to go across the fields; totake a short cut. [Colloq.]