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Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division.

Madam; my lady; -- a colloquial contraction of madam often used in direct address, and sometimes as an appellation.

Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness. "Mad demeanor." Milton. Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace. Franklin. The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled. Jowett (Thucyd.).

, animal magnetism, so called; as, a magnetic sleep. See Magnetism. Magnetic amplitude, attraction, dip, induction, etc. See under Amplitude, Attraction, etc. -- Magnetic battery, a combination of bar or horseshoe magnets with the like poles adjacent, so as to act together with great power. -- Magnetic compensator, a…

Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections. "By the magnetism of interest our affections are irresistibly attracted." Glanvill. Animal magnetism, a force, more or less analogous to magnetism, which, it has been alleged, is produced in animal tissues, and passes from one body to another…

nsisting of, molecules; as, molecular forces; molecular groups of atoms, etc. Molecular attraction (Phys.), attraction acting between the molecules of bodies, and at insensible distances. -- Molecular weight (Chem.), the weight of a molecule of any gas or vapor as compared with the hydrogen atom as a standard; the sum…

xpression; that is, an expression unconnected with any other by the sign of addition, substraction, equality, or inequality.

Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes.

An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion. See Illust. of Muscles of the Human Body, in Appendix.

The department of physiology which deals with the principles of muscular contraction; the exercise of muscular force or contraction.

ng and recording the different phases, as the intensity, velocity, etc., of a muscular contraction.

The description of muscles, including the study of muscular contraction by the aid of registering apparatus, as by some form of myograph; myology.

Long-continued contraction of the pupil of the eye.

Producing myosis, or contraction of the pupil of the eye, as opium, calabar bean, etc. -- n.

a contraction of Never.

Extraction of stone from the kidney by cutting.

Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent; not previously kniwn or famous. Addison.

Of noble extraction; as, nobly born or descended.

n. Shall names that made yuor city the glory of the earth be mentioned with obloquy and detraction Addison.

Slander; detraction; calumny. [Obs.] Barrow.