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take place in the constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year.

The machinery of a clock, or machinary resembling that of a clock; machinery which produced regularity of movement.

That which produces coagulation.

Serving to coagulate; produced by coagulation; as, coagulatory effects. Boyle.

A morbid condition produced by the habitual and excessive use of cocaine. -- Co*ca"in*ist, n.

, but was confused with cock the bird, F. coq, whence arose the fable that the animal was produced from a cock's egg. See Crocodile.]

Coöperating; acting together to produce an effect. Co`ef*fi"cient*ly, adv.

physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same…

rton. Coercive or Coercitive force (Magnetism), the power or force which in iron or steel produces a slowness or difficulty in imparting magnetism to it, and also interposes an obstacle to the return of a bar to its natural state when active magnetism has ceased. It plainly depends on the molecular constitution of the…

The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness. When she saw her lord prepared to part, A deadly cold ran shivering to her heart. Dryden.

truction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera. Hepatic colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a gallstone from the liver or gall bladder through the bile duct. -- Intestinal colic, or Ordinary colic, pain due to distention of the intestines by gas. -- Lead colic, Painter's colic, a violent form…

The act of applying color to; also, that which produces color.

verything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), -- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc.

nt. Component of force (Mech.), a force which, acting conjointly with one or more forces, produces the effect of a single force or resultant; one of a number of forces into which a single force may be resolved.

Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word. Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances. I. Watts. Compound addition, substraction, multiplication, division (Arith.), the addition, substraction…

depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.

A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion. [Obs.]

A rounded mass or nodule produced by an aggregation of the material around a center; as, the calcareous concretions common in beds of clay.

A condition of lowered functional activity, without visible structural change, produced in an organ by a shock, as by fall or blow; as, a concussion of the brain.

The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.