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To be blended, as if melted together. Fusing point, the degree of temperature at which a substance melts; the point of fusion.

that the diameter of the cone at the point where the chain acts may correspond with the degree of tension of the spring.

ill pity the poor. Prov. xxviii. 8. To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by degrees. Locke.

n place. -- Salt gauge, or Brine gauge, an instrument or contrivance for indicating the degree of saltness of water from its specific gravity, as in the boilers of ocean steamers. -- Sea gauge, an instrument for finding the depth of the sea. -- Siphon gauge, a glass siphon tube, partly filled with mercury, -- used t…

-- opposed to particular. In particulars our knowledge begins, and so spreads itself by degrees to generals. Locke.

are less simple in their relations, and of curves and surfaces of the second and higher degrees.

To pick up or gather anything by degrees. Piecemeal they this acre first, then that; Glean on, and gather up the whole estate. Pope.

above thirty-one. Great go, Little go, the final and the preliminary examinations for a degree. [Slang, Eng. Univ.] -- No go, a failure; a fiasco. [Slang] Thackeray. -- On the go, moving about; unsettled. [Colloq.]

nt, or of no account; considerable; esp., in the phrases a good deal, a good way, a good degree, a good share or part, etc.

An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. Walton.

Any degree or relative position in an order or series. The several gradations of the intelligent universe. I. Taylor.

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour. They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade. Buckle.

Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; as, the gradient line of a railroad.

Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline. Creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in man. Milton.

In degree. [Obs.] Human reason doth not only gradually, but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes. Grew.

To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.

Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades.

The marks on an instrument or vessel to indicate degrees or quantity; a scale.

pure water at its maximum density. It is equal to 15.432 grains. See Grain, n., 4. Gram degree, or Gramme degree (Physics), a unit of heat, being the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of pure water one degree centigrade. -- Gram equivalent (Electrolysis), that quantity of the metal which w…

Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent; -- generalIy used in composition; as, grandfather, grandson, grandchild, etc. What cause Mov'd our grand parents, in that happy state, Favor'd of Heaven so highly, to fall off From their Creator. Milton. Grand action, a pianoforte action, used i…