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; the highest point or degree; -- opposed to Ant: minimum. Good legislation is the art of conducting a nation to the maximum of happiness, and the minimum of misery. P. Colquhoun. Maximum thermometer, a thermometer that registers the highest degree of temperature attained in a given time, or since its last adjustment.…

The conductir of a mule team; also, a head shepherd.

Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory. The memory of the just is blessed. Prov. x. 7. That ever-living man of memory, Henry the Fifth. Shak. The Nonconformists . . . have, a…

gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.

A unit of conductivity, being the reciprocal of the ohm.

An instrument for measuring conductivity.

tensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.

he affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown. Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men. Shak.

aterial, made by blowing a powerful jet of air or steam through melted slag. It is a poor conductor of heat.

A quorum, or number necessary, for conducting public worship.

To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.

Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.

Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as, the failings and miscarriages of the righteous. Rogers.

Such as can be misconstrued, as language or conduct. R. North.

Ill behavior; evil conduct; fault. Shak.

Misgovernment; misconduct; misbehavior. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. [Obs.] Shak.

discharge from service. [Obs.] Mission school. (a) A school connected with a mission and conducted by missionaries. (b) A school for the religious instruction of children not having regular church privileges.

A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6. "Like mighty missioner you come." Dryden.

A wrong step; an error of conduct.