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Determined; resolved; -- used with an infinitive. However, I with thee have fixed my lot, Certain to undergo like doom. Milton.

A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptace of filth. [Written also sesspool.]

To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart. To checkmate and control my just demands. Ford.

One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects.

ephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.

ry act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.

g continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an acute disease, which speedly terminates.

-- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc.

An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc.

The germinating point in the embryo of a seed; the point in the yolk of an egg at which development begins.

dentical terms to a number of persons. -- Circular numbers (Arith.), those whose powers terminate in the same digits as the roots themselves; as 5 and 6, whose squares are 25 and 36. Bailey. Barlow. -- Circular points at infinity (Geom.), two imaginary points at infinite distance through which every circle in the pla…

The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery. Ray.

To prove or confirm by circumstances; to entr into details concerning. Neither will time permint to circumstantiate these particulars, which I have only touched in the general. State Trials (1661).

classic plains. Mrs. Hemans. The epithet classical, as applied to ancient authors, is determined less by the purity of their style than by the period at which they wrote. Brande & C. He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college. Macaulay.

A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.

An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level. Dana.

To end, terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six o'clock.

A finisher; that which finishes or terminates.

A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.

arbitrarily in an algebraic, expression, the value of the coefficient being afterwards determined by the conditions of the problem.