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A standing still or idle (of mills, factories, etc.).

The science of the useful arts, esp. agriculture, manufactures, and commerce. [R.]

An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.

A yellow substance obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of rosaniline. It dyes silk a fine golden-yellow color.

A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction, exultation, or derision.

h church and state are properly the rulers of the people, only because they are their benefactors. Bulwer.

Chylifactive.

The formation of chyle. See Chylifaction.

Chylifactive.

The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.

Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness. With silent circumspection, unespied. Milton.

That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things. The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened. W. Irving.

evidence (Law), evidence obtained from circumstances, which necessarily or usually attend facts of a particular nature, from which arises presumption. According to some authorities circumstantial is distinguished from positive evidence in that the latter is the testimony of eyewitnesses to a fact or the admission of a…

Enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts.

a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.

A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry. Macaulay.

A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas; used for making printer's ink, black varnish, etc. It is a complex mixture from which many substances have been obtained, especially hydrocarbons of the benzene or aromatic series.

A number, commonly used in computation as a factor, expressing the amount of some change or effect under certain fixed conditions as to temperature, length, volume, etc.; as, the coefficient of expansion; the coefficient of friction. Arbitrary coefficient (Math.), a literal coefficient placed arbitrarily in an algebrai…

lyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "Coactus volui" (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion. Wharton.

To know or perceive; to recognize. The reasoning faculty can deal with no facts until they are cognized by it. H. Spencer.