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The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.

A semisolid emulsion produced by the treatment of certain skins with oxidized fish oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. It was formerly solely a by-product of chamois leather manufacture, but is now made for its own sake, being valuable as a dressing for hides.

Producing, or tending to produce, delirium. -- n.

Influenced or produced by a demon or evil spirit; as, demoniac or demoniacal power. "Demoniac frenzy." Milton.

A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

Produced by applying the tongue to the teeth or to the gums; or representing a sound so formed. -- n.

ent variable (Math.), a varying quantity whose changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by changes in another variable, which is called the independent variable.

An agent which is adapted to produce a derivation (in the medical sense).

To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral.

One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration.

free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives. Its superior suitability to produce courage, as contrasted with scientific physical determinism, is obvious. F. P. Cobbe.

One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.

to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power. These serve to develop its tenets. Milner. The 20th was spent in strengthening our position and developing the line of the enemy. The Century.…

ting. Clarke. Dialytic telescope, an achromatic telescope in which the colored dispersion produced by a single object lens of crown glass is corrected by a smaller concave lens, or combination of lenses, of high dispersive power, placed at a distance in the narrower part of the converging cone of rays, usually near the…

A colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one.

bject to such reactions or processes that diazo compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange or substitution.

A form of phonographic recorder and reproducer adapted for use in dictation, as in business.

; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate. For whom he produced differential favors. Motley.

pposed act or tendency in being of every kind, whether organic or inorganic, to assume or produce a more complex structure or functions.

That produces diffraction.