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A device to magnify sound, or direct it in a given direction in a greater volume, as a very large funnel used as an ear trumpet or as a speaking trumpet.

In the direction of the meridian.

An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.

To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies. Shenstone.

To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction. Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss. Bacon. Flying bullets now, To execute his rage, appear too slow; They miss, or sweep but common souls away. Waller.

Measured; -- a direction to perform a passage in strict or measured time.

Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle. Testament of Love. The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition. Hawthorne.

in, articles of fashion, especially of the fashionable dress of ladies; a woman who gives direction to the style or mode of dress.

the intensity of the force into the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of direction of the force. (b) With respect to a line, the product of that component of the force which is perpendicular to the plane passing through the line and the point of application of the force, into the shortest distance betw…

Having one oblique inclination; -- applied to strata that dip in only one direction from the axis of elevation.

Having a distinct cleavage in a single direction only.

A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularly to periodical winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from the southwest from the latter part of May to the middle of September, and from the northeast from about the middle of October t…

A term used as a direction in execution, signifying, with extreme delicacy. Ludden.

Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east. In our proper motion we ascend. Milton.

are dark gray. -- Mountain range, a series of mountains closely related in position and direction. -- Mountain rice. (Bot.) (a) An upland variety of rice, grown without irrigation, in some parts of Asia, Europe, and the United States. (b) An American genus of grasses (Oryzopsis). -- Mountain rose (Bot.), a species…

fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile; -- as, the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth.

d force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one intelligent will.

A line or a direction composed of successive short curves or waves supposed to resembe a cloud. See NÉbulÉ

; starting anew; now commencing; different from has been; as, a new year; a new course or direction.

That one of the four cardinal points of the compass, at any place, which lies in the direction of the true meridian, and to the left hand of a person facing the east; the direction opposite to the south.