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An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consist of two glass bulbs, connected by a tube of the same material, and containing only a quantity of water and its vapor, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below 32º Fa…

unning or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves.

That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.

An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts.

A certain surface of the third degree, described by a moving straight line; -- used to illustrate the motions of a rigid body and also the forces acting on the body.

A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms.

part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column. Hence:

of a large and powerful breed of dogs reared in Denmark; -- called also great Dane. See Illustration in Appendix.

The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash. [R.] It lends a luster . . . A large dare to our great enterprise. Shak.

A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash. [Low]

The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade or show. [R. & Colloq.] He must fight a duel before his claim to . . . dashism can be universally allowed. V. Knox.

Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.

ect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the power of speech, or has lost it. [See Illust. of Dactylology.] Deaf-mutes are still so called, even when, by artificial methods, they have been taught to speak imperfectly.

Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness. Oppose . . . debauchery by temperance. Sprat.

ically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster.

Illustrious act; achievement; exploit. "Knightly deeds." Spenser. Whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn. Dryden.

complete and strongly marked, the garments being not only all black, but also composed of lusterless materials and of such fashion as is identified with mourning garments.

Licentious pleasure; lust. [Obs.] Chaucer.

variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.

The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person. After the demise of the Queen [of George II.], in 1737, they [drawing-rooms] were held but twice a week. P. Cunningham.