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A more or less continued impression or image on the retina. H. Spencer.

o the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like.

ions of the sun's diameter by photography, utilizing the common chord of two overlapping images.

ix) allied to the aphids. It attacks the roots and leaves of the grapevine, doing great damage, especially in Europe.

The art of painting; representation by painting. [Obs.] Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. Sir H. Wotton.

The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, till satisfaction is made. Burrill.

Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages. "With pilgrim steps." Milton. Pilgrim fathers, a name popularly given to the one hundred and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth in

To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

inia, whose larvæ burrow in the ends of the branchlets of pine trees, often doing great damage. -- Pine mouse (Zoöl.), an American wild mouse (Arvicola pinetorum), native of the Middle States. It lives in pine forests. -- Pine needle (Bot.), one of the slender needle-shaped leaves of a pine tree. See Pinus. -- Pine-…

rous hemipterous insects which injure the foliage of plants, as Lygus lineolaris, which damages wheat and trees. -- Plant cutter (Zoöl.), a South American passerine bird of the genus Phytotoma, family Phytotomidæ. It has a serrated bill with which it cuts off the young shoots and buds of plants, often doing much injur…

on in which characters are represented by dialogue and action. A play ought to be a just image of human nature. Dryden.

Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage. [R.] Southey.

painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model. For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his. Shak. Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors but the portraiture. Bacon.

, both in the larval and adult stages, upon the leaves of the potato, often doing great damage. Called also Colorado potato beetle, and Doryphora. See Colorado beetle. (b) The Lema trilineata, a smaller and more slender striped beetle which feeds upon the potato plant, bur does less injury than the preceding species.…

Especially, the joyful tribute of gratitude or homage rendered to the Divine Being; the act of glorifying or extolling the Creator; worship, particularly worship by song, distinction from prayer and other acts of worship; as, a service of praise.

nt, similar to the phenakistoscope, for presenting to view, or projecting upon a screen, images the natural motions of real objects.

cree; to preëlect. Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. Rom. viii. 29.

Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment. Locke. England and France might, through their amity, Breed him some prejudice. Shak.

One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See Plumage, and Illust. of Bird.

A method of printing, in which the image is fully brought out by the direct actinic action of light without subsequent development by means of chemicals.