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hich is liable to undergo decomposition when in contact with air and moisture at ordinary temperatures.

Producing heat; -- said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.

or application of the thermopile, used for indicating minute changes of radiant heat, or temperature.

ium chemically. Radium preparations are remarkable for maintaining themselves at a higher temperature than their surroundings, and for their radiations, which are of three kinds: alpha rays, beta rays, and gamma rays (see these terms). By reason of these rays they ionize gases, affect photographic plates, cause sores o…

vate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room.

projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.

; a register; as, a record of the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record.

ar constructed as a refrigerator, for the transportation of fresh meats, fish, etc., in a temperature kept cool by ice.

t, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc. To regulate a watch or clock, to adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time.

To restrain; to control; to check. Being once chafed, he can not Be reined again to temperance. Shak. To rein in or rein up, to check the speed of, or cause to stop, by drawing the reins.

n will attend you . . . as pleasant and useful companion in every proper place, and every temperate occupation of life. Buckminster.

One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person. [Low]

n effect or consequence; to incline. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds. Bacon. Temperate climates run into moderate governments. Swift.

Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.

Of unrestrained and intemperate jollity; riotously merry; dissolute. "Saturnalian amusement." Burke.

A person of a dull, grave, gloomy temperament. W. browne.

. . . quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts . . . ever marred the effect of his grave temperate discourses. Macaulay.

year, marked by alternations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., caused mainly by the relative position of the earth with respect to the sun. In the north temperate zone, four seasons, namely, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are generally recognized. Some parts…

enses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. Shak. What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate. Milton. The traitor Sense recalls The soaring soul from rest. Keble.…

To drink intemperately or gluttonously. [Slang]