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hot tube (tube ignition) or the like, by an electric spark (electric ignition, the usual method is gasoline engines, or by the heat of compression, as in the Diesel engine. Gas and oil engines are chiefly of the stationary type. Gasoline engines are largely used for automobile vehicles, boats, etc. Most internal-combu…

The method or operation of finding from a few given terms of a series, as of numbers or observations, other intermediate terms in conformity with the law of the series.

A method or practice of the administration of the sacrament by dipping the bread or wafer in the wine and administering both together.

To bring into notice, practice, cultivation, or use; as, to introduce a new fashion, method, or plant.

One given to the introspective method of examining the phenomena of the soul.

One of the methods by which the various germinal layers of the ovum are differentiated.

g and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts. Invention of the cross (Eccl.), a festival celebrated May 3d, in honor of the finding of our Savior's cross by St. Helena.

A peculiar method of transformation, in which a figure is replaced by its inverse figure. Propositions that are true for the original figure thus furnish new propositions that are true in the inverse figure. See Inverse figures, under Inverse.

That branch of Christian science which treats of the methods of securing unity among Christians or harmony and union among the churches; -- called also Irenical theology. Schaff-Herzog.

Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognized as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable to nature, to the rules of moral rectitude, or to established principles; not normal; unnatural; immethodical; unsymmetrical; erratic; no straight; not uniform; as, an irregular line; an…

or state of being equal in weight, especially in atmospheric pressure. Also, the theory, method, or application of isobaric science.

or state of being equal in weight, especially in atmospheric pressure. Also, the theory, method, or application of isobaric science.

A method of moving a fleet from one formation to another, the direction usually being changed eight points (90º), by means of paths of equal length for each ship. It is prohibited in the United States navy.

en work or wickerwork, and daubing one or both sides with mud or adobe mortar; also, this method of construction.

Of or pertaining to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods.

of a plane. Glanvill. Jog trot, a slow, regular, jolting gait; hence, a routine habit or method, persistently adhered to. T. Hook.

To conform to the doctrines, observances, or methods of the Jews; to inculcate or impose Judaism. They . . . prevailed on the Galatians to Judaize so far as to observe the rites of Moses in various instances. They were Judaizing doctors, who taught the observation of the Mosaic law. Bp. Bull.

A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.

specially in the civil law; a writer on civil and international law. It has ever been the method of public jurists to Burke.

onstruction; -- a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden.