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n meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. Ascham.

the vertical muscular radiating partitions which divide the body cavity of Anthozoa into chambers.

To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another. [R.] Peacham.

r recording automatically, the quantity measured. Dry meter, a gas meter having measuring chambers, with flexible walls, which expand and contract like bellows and measure the gas by filling and emptying. -- W, a gas meter in which the revolution of a chambered drum in water measures the gas passing through it.…

A measuring rod. Ascham.

A vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.

A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.

), a building stone, one of the group of the Paris basin, almost entirely made up of many-chambered microscopic shells.

embling caoutchouc in elasticity and softness. See Caoutchouc, and Elaterite. -- Mineral chameleon (Chem.) See Chameleon mineral, under Chameleon. -- Mineral charcoal. See under Charcoal. -- Mineral cotton. See Mineral wool (below). -- Mineral green, a green carbonate of copper; malachite. -- Mineral kingdom (Nat.…

ke; error; fault. Shak. He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar. Ascham.

A mechamical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.

To admonish; to warn. See Admonish. [Archaic] Ascham.

A division of Foraminifera including those that have only one chamber.

A foraminifer having but one chamber.

One-chambered.

A chamber lamp or light. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Divided into many chambers by partitions, as the pith of the pokeweed.

and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve.

l Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata.

son that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamædryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England.