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Transparent; -- said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles.

between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves. Land agent, a person employed to sell or let land, to collect rents, and to attend to other money matters connected with land. -- Land boat, a vehicle on wheels propelled by sails. -- Land blink, a peculiar atmospheric brightness see…

n and laughing which it sometimes produces when inhaled. It is much used as an anæsthetic agent. -- Laughing goose (Zoöl.), the European white-fronted goose. -- Laughing gull. (Zoöl.) (a) A common European gull (Xema ridibundus); -- called also pewit, black cap, red-legged gull, and sea crow. (b) An American gull (La…

le to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts.

Sulphuric ether used as an anæsthetic agent. [R.]

om compulsion or constraint in willing. The idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other. Locke. This liberty of judgment did not of necessity lead to lawlessness. J. A.…

That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

acterizing wood cells and differing from cellulose in its conduct with certain chemical reagents.

An agent, as mercury, iodine, etc., which promotes the liquefying processes of the system, and increases the secretions.

aking or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat.

olid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.

A lithontriptic remedy or agent, as distilled water.

s, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency. [U.S.]

One who looks. Looker-on, a spectator; one that looks on, but has no agency or part in an affair. Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet sattest thou an idle looker-on Fairfax.

A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine. The whole machine of government ought not to bear upon the people with a weight so heavy and oppressive. Landor.

the Magi; relating to the occult powers of nature, and the producing of effects by their agency.

To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc. Call for…

The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.

An evidence of presence, agency, or influence; a significative token; a symptom; a trace; specifically, a permanent impression of one's activity or character. The confusion of tongues was a mark of separation. Bacon.

sed in the composition of remedies; -- a general term for all substances used as curative agents in medicine.