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An instrument for measuring the distance of distinct vision, mainly for the selection of eveglasses.

l, and Note to def. 12 above. -- Close order (Mil.), the arrangement of the ranks with a distance of about half a pace between them; with a distance of about three yards the ranks are in Ant: open order. -- The four Orders, The Orders four, the four orders of mendicant friars. See Friar. Chaucer. -- General orders (…

The distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured.

A bearing, in the form of a fillet, round the shield, within, but at some distance from, the border.

g topographical maps. It is operated by being pushed across country, and not only records distances, like the perambulator, but also elevations.

d; especially, one in which the edges are ornamented with conical figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them.

art of sailing in a direct course, or on the arc of a great circle, which is the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of the globe; great-circle sailing; orthodromy.

resents its circles as seen in perspective by an eye supposed to be placed at an infinite distance, the plane of projection passing through the center of the sphere perpendicularly to the line of sight.

Ground situated at a distance from the house; outlying land.

A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy; hence, anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defended.

A small house or building at a little distance from the main house; an outbuilding.

Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached.

A harbor or port at some distance from the chief town or seat of trade. Macaulay.

A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army, for observation of the enemy.

One who settles at a distance, or away, from others.

pularly, of an ellipse. Cassinian oval (Geom.), the locus of a point the product of whose distances from two fixed points is constant; -- so called from Cassini, who first investigated the curve. Thus, in the diagram, if P moves so that P A.P B is constant, the point P describes a Cassinian oval. The locus may consist…

To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running. Ahimaaz run by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi. 2 Sam. xviii. 23.

The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.

An instrument for measuring angles for determining elevations, distances, etc.

Deviating from circularity; changing the distance from a center. Paracentric curve (Math.), a curve having the property that, when its plane is placed vertically, a body descending along it, by the force of gravity, will approach to, or recede from, a fixed point or center, by equal distances in equal times; -- called…