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A paper containing (usually) a definite quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.

The division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved in the first term. [Obs.]

represents the resultant of two velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc., both in quantity and direction, when the velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc., are represented in quantity and direction by the two adjacent sides of the parallelogram.

An albuminous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice.

A crystalline substance closely related to xanthin, present in small quantity in urine.

An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group. This youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing. Shak.

which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent. And kept back p…

Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood. Sir T. Browne.

A paste made by mixing ground fresh roasted peanuts with a small quantity of water or oil, and used chiefly as a relish on sandwiches, etc.

A great deal; a large or excessive quantity. "A peck of uncertainties and doubts." Milton.

A small quantity; a trifle. Bacon.

particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form of enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. See Illust. under Moon.

Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.

k out any dark stuff with lines or spots of bright colors. (b) To select from a number or quantity. -- To pick to pieces, to pull apart piece by piece; hence [Colloq.], to analyze; esp., to criticize in detail. -- To pick a quarrel, to give occasion of quarrel intentionally. -- To pick up. (a) To take up, as with th…

A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.

As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.

A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains. Pipe fitter, one who fits pipes together, or applies pipes, as to an engine or a building. -- Pipe fitting, a piece, as a coupling, an elbow, a valve, etc., used for connecting lengths of pipe or as accessory to a pipe.…

The quantity a pitcher will hold.

state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperæmia; -- opposed to anæmia.

the quantity of land allotted for the work of one plow; a hide.