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dispatched this weary pilgrimage, and from a traveler shall come to be a comprehensor, farewell faith and welcome vision. Bp. Hall.

tract conception than that of the visible operation which the word primarily signifies. Whewell.

an's character and life from the configuration of the stars at the moment of his birth. Whewell.

The act of taking leave; parting ceremony; farewell; also, dismissal.

odotus] would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. Milton.

ip. He [Algazel] denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue and hapiness. Atterbury.

f right and wrong, and accompanied with the sentiments of approbation and condemnation. Whewell.

nce of his high consideration. D. Webster. The consideration with which he was treated. Whewell.

n one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. Whewell.

ibly pursues those measures which appear the most just. Addison. Consistency, thou art a jewel. Popular Saying.

r the parts of anything; structure; arrangement. An astrolabe of peculiar construction. Whewell.

ary. Men fergot, or feared, to consult . . . ; they were content to consult liberaries. Whewell.

Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewell; perpetuation; propagation. The brute immedistely regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species. Addison.

on. The doctrine of the earth's motion appeared to be contrary to the sacred Scripture. Whewell.

as shown by juxtaposition or comparison. The contrasts and resemblances of the seasons. Whewell.

e at jerusalem. Rom. xv. 26. Aristotle's actual contributions to the physical sciences. Whewell.

agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. "Conventional decorum." Whewell. The conventional language appropriated to monarchs. Motley. The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional. Latham.

Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines. Whewell. Converging rays(Opt.), rays of light, which, proceeding from different points of an object, tend toward a single point. -- Converging series (Math.), a series in which if an indefinitely great number of terms be taken, their sum w…

m; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave. Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a convex surface. Whewell. Double convex, convex on both sides; convexo-convex.

iral for drawing corks from bottles. Corkscrew starts, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.