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ge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war. Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge To this I answer in one word, from experience. Locke. Experience may be acquired in two ways; either, first by noticing facts without any attempt to influence the frequency of their occurrence or…

urst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam.

off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc. Themistocles . . . was of all men the best able to extemporize the right thing to be done. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Pitt, of whom it was said that he could extemporize a Queen's sp…

nsion of a body, especially for measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material, when subjected to a tensile force.

Beyond the material world. "An extramundane being." Bp. Warburton.

To line near the edge, esp. with a different material; as, to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress.

The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building; facing.

The finishing of any face of a wall with material different from that of which it is chiefly composed, or the coating or material so used.

Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain. [R.] Kirwan. AA farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages. Sir T. Browne.

A mass ccomposed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture. A confounded farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. Sheridan.

A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat. We'll revel it as bravely as the best, . . . With ruffs and cuffs, and farthingales and things. Shak.

The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.

To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.

An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon.

The material of which felt is made; also, felted cloth; also, the process by which it is made.

er space, or about any object; especially, an inclosing structure of wood, iron, or other material, intended to prevent intrusion from without or straying from within. Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold. Milton.

The materials used for building fences. [U.S.]

rmentation, and attributes them to the organized ferments in the body. It does not differ materially from the accepted germ theory (which see).

f high potential, and consisting of concentric tubes of copper separated by an insulating material composed of paper saturated with black mineral wax.

A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being.