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An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits.

ence by hope of receiving some good. An expectant of future glory. South. Those who had employments, or were expectants. Swift.

To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations. If my death might make this i…

Pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles.

sense whatever does a man who accumulates a fortune by legitimate industry exploit his employés or make his capital "out of" anybody else. W. G. Sumner.

Employed in, or designed for, exploration. "Exploring parties." Bancroft.

tive effect, and with intention to produce that effect; but in its true application, as employed in American law, it relates only to crimes, and signifies a law which retroacts, by way of criminal punishment, upon that which was not a crime before its passage, or which raises the grade of an offense, or renders an act…

A sporting rifle for use at short ranges, employing a large charge of powder and a light (short) bullet, giving a high initial velocity and consequently a flat trajectory. It is usually of moderately large caliber.

A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon. W. D. Howells.

stances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb moisture, as calcium chloride, or concentrated sulphuric acid.

Employed or sent upon an unusual or special service; as, an ambassador extraordinary.

Service performed only under inspection, or the eye of an employer. Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers. Col. iii. 22.

se or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. "The Company's factory at Madras." Burke.

A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. B. Jonson.

A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.

r graduating the operation of a feeder. Knight. -- Feed screw, in lathes, a long screw employed to impart a regular motion to a tool rest or tool, or to the work. -- Feed water, water supplied to a steam boiler, etc. -- Feed wheel (Mach.), a kind of feeder. See Feeder, n., 8.

Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively. Mock the nice touches of the critic's file. Akenside.

of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work.

To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.

A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery.