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bling the ordinary mouthpiece to be dispensed with. Much use has been made of it for overhearing, or for recording, conversations for the purpose of obtaining evidence for use in litigation.

An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish the bearings of two persons, which would otherwise be the same. See Augmentation, and Marks of cadency, under Cadency.

ections are measured by the difference of their effect upon the needle. -- Differential gearing, a train of toothed wheels, usually an epicyclic train, so arranged as to constitute a differential motion. -- Differential motion, a mechanism in which a simple differential combination produces such a change of motion or…

A rending or tearing in pieces; dilaceration. [R.]

r or writing, usually under seal, conferring some privilege, honor, or power; a document bearing record of a degree conferred by a literary society or educational institution.

A tearing apart; violent separation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison.

Bearing disks.

Bearing the stamens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle; - - said of a subclass of plants. Cf. Calycifloral.

space of seven hundred years. Daniel. They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it. Holder.

where the ratio of the means is different from that of either couplet; as, 3:6::8:16, 3 bearing the same proportion to 6 as 8 does to 16. But 3 is not to 6 as 6 to 8. It is thus opposed to continued or continual proportion; as, 3:6::12:24. -- Discrete quantity, that which must be divided into units, as number, and is…

The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton.

The act of clearing land of forests. Daniel.

Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope.

To turn away from the cast; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

Act of disappearing; disappearance. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

y subject; a full examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation. For accurate research or grave disquisition he was not well qualified. Macaulay.

Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy. Impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect. Pope.

of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends. Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress. Shak.

A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.