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An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.

Somewhat dull; uninteresting; tiresome. "A series of dullish verses." Prof. Wilson.

ubterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock. Earthquake alarm, a bell signal constructed to operate on the theory that a few seconds before the occurrenc…

is precisely that of a crank having the same throw. Back eccentric, the eccentric that reverses or backs the valve gear and the engine. -- Fore eccentric, the eccentric that imparts a forward motion to the valve gear and the engine.

the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis.

One versed in ecclesiology.

One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.

An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.

One versed in electro-biology.

hich makes it consist in the rapid alternation of transient electric currents moving transversely to the direction of the ray.

attery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; - - the converse or correlative of electro-negative.

wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.

f a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary. Faraday.

Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.

To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail. Carlyle.

extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.

One who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution.

A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation.

, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments. In philosophical language, the term empirical means simply what belongs to or is the product of experience or observation. Sir W. Hamilton. The village carpenter . . . lays out his work by empirical rules le…

of the taking of an adverse pawn which makes a first move of two squares by a pawn already so advanced as to threaten the first of these squares. The pawn which takes en passant is advanced to the threatened square.