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flect an image of the sun upon the horizon glass, and when the reflected image of the sun coincides, to the observer's eye, with the horizon as seen directly through an opening at the side of the horizon glass, the index shows the sun's altitude upon the scale; -- more properly, but less commonly, called an octant. --…

ssed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value. Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps. Swift. Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent. Mrs. Alexander. Not to care a rap, to care nothing. -- Not wo…

A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.

ctual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience. Many coincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them [Greek inscriptions] which realize ancient history to us. Jowett. We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment. Sir W. Hamilton.…

The charge or account made by a host at an inn. A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning. Addison.

The nurling on the edge of a coin; -- commonly called milling.

or to obtain redress for a wrong. Civil remedy. See under Civil. -- Remedy of the mint (Coinage), a small allowed deviation from the legal standard of weight and fineness; -- called also tolerance.

ith becoming reprobation. Jeffrey. Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin. Dryden.

The back side; as, the reverse of a drum or trench; the reverse of a medal or coin, that is, the side opposite to the Ant: obverse. See Obverse.

A Spanish coin. See Real. [Obs.]

A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it. His moldy money ! half a dozen riders. J. Fletcher.

ngles; in spherical projections, that position of the sphere in which the primitive plane coincides with the plane of the equator.

A Danish coin worth about fifty-four cents. It was former unit of value in Denmark.

A Swedish coin worth about twenty-seven cents. It was formerly the unit of value in Sweden.

A name given to several different silver coins of Denmark, Holland, Sweden,, NOrway, etc., varying in value from about 30 cents to $1.10; also, a British coin worth about 36 cents, used in Ceylon and at the Cape of Good Hope. See Rigsdaler, Riksdaler, and Rixdaler.

A Dutch silver coin, worth about $1.00.

A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny. Rosary shell (Zoöl.), any marine gastropod shell of the genus Monodonta. They are top-shaped, bright-colored and pearly.

A name of several English gold coins struck in different reigns and having having different values; a rose noble.

A coin. See Ruble.

A little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something resembling such a roll.