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A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout. Delighting in hodge-podge, gallimaufries, forced meat. King.

A copperplate produced by the method of galvanography; also, a picture printed from such a plate.

A method of producing by means of electrotyping process (without etching) copperplates which can be printed from in the same manner as engraved plates.

A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project. Your murderous game is nearly up. Blackw. Mag. It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack. Saintsbury.…

A group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes.

n of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding.

Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method.

anything, or its natural mode of production or development. This historical, genetical method of viewing prior systems of philosophy. Hare.

In a geographical manner or method; according to geography.

s, valleys, mountains, climates, life, etc.; historical geology. (c) Of the causes and methods by which its structure, features, changes, and conditions have been produced; dynamical geology. See Chart of The Geological Series.

the sphere. "The gnomonic projection derives its name from the connection between the methods of describing it and those for the construction of a gnomon or dial." Cyc. of Arts & Sciences.

A method of painting with opaque colors, which have been ground in water and mingled with a preparation of gum; also, a picture thus painted.

The act or method of arranging in or by grade, or of bringing, as the surface of land or a road, to the desired level or grade.

The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation.

The act or method of weaving a cover for a ring, rope end, etc.

ormula. (Chem.) See under Formula. -- Graphic granite. See under Granite. -- Graphic method, the method of scientific analysis or investigation, in which the relations or laws involved in tabular numbers are represented to the eye by means of curves or other figures; as the daily changes of weather by means of curves…

A greenish apple, of several varieties, among which the Rhode Island greening is the best known for its fine-grained acid flesh and its excellent keeping quality.

gorian calendar, the calendar as reformed by Pope Gregory XIII. in 1582, including the method of adjusting the leap years so as to harmonize the civil year with the solar, and also the regulation of the time of Easter and the movable feasts by means of epochs. See Gregorian year (below). -- Gregorian chant (Mus.), pla…

The act, method, or process of laying a groundwork or foundation; hence, elementary instruction; the act or process of applying a ground, as of color, to wall paper, cotton cloth, etc.; a basis.

f New England, between 1657 and 1662, of permitting baptized persons of moral life and orthodox faith to enjoy all the privileges of church membership, save the partaking of the Lord's Supper. They were also allowed to present their children for baptism. -- Halfway house, an inn or place of call midway on a journey.…