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Termination; ending. Bp. Hall.

Terminal. Furthermore, b, as a desinential element, has a dynamic function. Fitzed. Hall.

ste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation. Unto the end of the war desolations are determined. Dan. ix. 26.

Determined by destiny; fated. Chaucer.

Determined by destiny; fated. [Obs.] "The order destinal." Chaucer.

Purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design.

To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for. We are decreed, Reserved, and destined to eternal woe. Milton…

That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. Shak. No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. Bryant.

To do injury to; to hurt. [Archaic] Other might be determined thereby. Fuller.

To adorn with a diadem; to crown. Not so, when diadem'd with rays divine. Pope. To terminate the evil, To diadem the right. R. H. Neale.

Scientific determination of any kind; the concise description of characterization of a species.

s employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conducting power. Nichol.

plates having numbers or letters upon them. These plates must be adjusted in a certain determined way before the lock can be operated. -- Dial plate, the plane or disk of a dial or timepiece on which lines and figures for indicating the time are placed.

which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor.

ough the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve.

Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n. Dice coal, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. Brande & C.

A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.

That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. Such is the die of war. Spenser.

elates to diet or food; rules for diet. To suppose that the whole of dietetics lies in determining whether or not bread is more nutritive than potatoes. H. Spencer.

mponent screws. -- Differential thermometer, a thermometer usually with a U-shaped tube terminating in two air bulbs, and containing a colored liquid, used for indicating the difference between the temperatures to which the two bulbs are exposed, by the change of position of the colored fluid, in consequence of the di…