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Passing through; permeating. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance. Here is not a mere involution only, but a spiritual permeation and inexistence. Bp. Hall.

The act or state of passing the whole night; a remaining all night. "Pernoctation in prayer." Jer. Taylor.

Passing through or over. [R.]

The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the whole extent of a thing. Boyle.

An inert amorphous white powder, PN2H, obtained by passing ammonia over heated phosphorus. [Spelt also phosphame.] -- Phos"pham"ic, a.

with spokes, which when turning very rapidly is illuminated by momentary flashes of light passing through slits in a rotating disk. By properly timing the succession of flashes the wheel is made to appear to be motionless, or to rotate more or less slowly in either direction.

The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.

To destroy the central nervous system of (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal.

An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.

See under 3d Coördinate. -- Polar dial, a dial whose plane is parallel to a great circle passing through the poles of the earth. Math. Dict. -- Polar distance, the angular distance of any point on a sphere from one of its poles, particularly of a heavenly body from the north pole of the heavens. -- Polar equation of…

motive force, both of which tend materially to weaken the current of the battery, or that passing through the cell.

orm of lathe, or a substitute for a lathe, in which the work is turned by means of a cord passing around it, one end being fastened to the treadle, and the other to an elastic pole above. -- Pole mast (Naut.), a mast formed from a single piece or from a single tree. -- Pole of a lens (Opt.), the point where the princ…

Passing through several distinct larval forms; -- having several distinct kinds of young.

ined by public authority, in which cattle or other animals are confined when taken in trespassing, or when going at large in violation of law; a pinfold. Shak.

Excellent; surpassing. [Obs.] Holland.

The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state. "The precincts of light." Milton.

Eminent above others; prominent among those who are eminent; superior in excellence; surpassing, or taking precedence of, others; rarely, surpassing others in evil, or in bad qualities; as, preëminent in guilt. In goodness and in power preëminent. Milton.

The act of passing, or going past; the state of being past. Bp. Hall.

The act of passing by or omitting; omission. Milton.