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culate round the central wheel on the shaft, communicating to this latter a velocity of revolution the double of its own. G. Francis. -- Sun angel (Zoöl.), a South American humming bird of the genus Heliangelos, noted for its beautiful colors and the brilliant luster of the feathers of its throat. -- Sun animalcute.…

effective, whether it be a simple strike, a peaceful public demonstration, sabotage, or revolutionary violence. By the general strike and direct action syndicalism aims to establish a social system in which the means and processes of production are in the control of local organizations of workers, who are manage them f…

e sun, to the next; as, a synodical month (see Lunar month, under Month); the synodical revolution of the moon or a planet.

sposing military and naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics of instruction.

trine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine of adaptation to purpose.

One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France. Burke.

A member of a deistical society established at Paris during the French revolution.

One who, in the time of the Revolution, favored submitting tothe claims of Great Britain against the colonies; an adherent tothe crown.

A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies. [Obs.] Blackmore.

Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution.

The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution.

A contrivance for computing the revolutions of a wheel; an odometer.

The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel.

A twist; a convolution. Typhon huge, ending in snaky twine. Milton.

A twist; a convolution. Woodward.

by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible substance, round another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other; as, to twist yarn or thread. Shak.

Any theory which conceives chance as an objective reality; esp., a theory of evolution which considers that variation may be purely fortuitous.

ng no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.

A section or part of a cylinder, cone, or other solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the base; -- so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a horse.

erves. Why should I then unhinge my brains, ruin my mind South. His sufferings, nay the revolutions of his fate, had not in the least unhinged his mind. Walpole.