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cal measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantitty transferred by one ampère in one second. Formerly called weber.

substance, HO.C6H4.C2H2.CO2H, obtained from the tonka bean, sweet clover, etc., and also produced artifically.

indication. (Med.) Same as Contraindication. -- Counter irritant (Med.), an irritant to produce a blister, a pustular eruption, or other irritation in some part of the body, in order to relieve an existing irritation in some other part. "Counter irritants are of as great use in moral as in physical diseases." Macaula…

To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.

In the manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly. They can produce nothing so courtly writ. Dryden

A South American rodent (Myopotamus coypus), allied to the beaver. It produces a valuable fur called nutria. [Written also coypou.]

A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.

To produce a creaking sound with. Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry. Shak.

or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, howewer produced.

fect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew. Your eye in Scotland Would create soldiers. Shak. Create in me a clean heart. Ps. li. 10.

Relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food; as, creatic nausea. [Written also kreatic.]

That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature. We know that the whole creation groaneth. Rom. viii. 22. A dagger of the mind, a false creation. Shak. Choice pictures and creations of curious art. Beaconsfield.…

One who creates, produces, or constitutes. Specifically, the Supreme Being. To sin's rebuke and my Creater's praise. Shak. The poets and artists of Greece, who are at the same time its prophets, the creators of its divinities, and the revealers of its theological beliefs. Caird.

A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air.

The noise produced bu a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels.

always the same for each gas, regarded as the limit above which no amount of pressure can produce condensation to a liquid.

A dyestuff, obtained from the Chinese croicin, which produces a brilliant yellow.

the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn.

to mix distinct breeds. If two individuals of distinct races cross, a third is invariably produced different from either. Coleridge.

Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.