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of our Lord at the foot of the cross. It is read in the Mass of the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary, and is sung by Catholics when making "the way of the cross" (Via Crucis). See Station, 7 (c).

To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install. Shak.

duct prescribed by the supreme power in a state. Blackstone. The Puritans in the reign of Mary, driven from their homes, sought an asylum in Geneva, where they found a state without a king, and a church without a bishop. R. Choate.

One of the upright pieces in a frame; one of the primary members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised.

One of the several primary divisions of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zoölogy, the Vertebrata, Tunicata, Mollusca, Articulata, Molluscoidea, Echinodermata, Coelentera, and the Protozoa; in botany, the Phanerogamia, and the Cryptogamia.

[wings]. Milton. Summing up, a compendium or abridgment; a recapitulation; a résumé; a summary.

In a summary manner.

To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly. Chambers.

One who sums up; one who forms an abridgment or summary. Sir E. Dering.

ic acid, whereby the insoluble neutral calcium phosphate, Ca3(PO4)2, is changed to the primary or acid calcium phosphate Ca(H2PO4)2, which is soluble and therefore available for the soil.

An abstract or compendium of faith or doctrine; a creed, or a summary of the articles of religion.

f heads or parts so arranged as to exhibit a general view of the whole; an abstract or summary of a discourse; a syllabus; a conspectus. That the reader may see in one view the exactness of the method, as well as force of the argument, I shall here draw up a short synopsis of this epistle. Bp. Warburton.…

xual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.Treponema pallidum. Usu. tretable with penicillin or other beta-lactam antibiotics.

A kind of customary payment by a tenant; -- a word used in old records. Cowell. Burrill.

rious ways, so as to form a great number of different figures. It is now often used in primary schools as a means of instruction.

leaves, growing in fresh or brackish water; -- called also fresh-water eelgrass, and, in Maryland, wild celery. -- Tape needle. See Bodkin, n., 4.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid which is the primary acid amide derivative of tartaric acid.

e substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary. (CH3)3C.OH.

stannous chloride, used as a mordant in dyeing and calico printing. -- Tin penny, a customary duty in England, formerly paid to tithingmen for liberty to dig in tin mines. [Obs.] Bailey. -- Tin plate, thin sheet iron coated with tin. -- Tin pyrites. See Stannite.

of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary.