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At what price; how dear. [Obs.] How a score of ewes now Shak.

; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror. Electrical image. See under Electrical. -- Image breaker, one…

o wash freely; to immerce. And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. Milton.

t when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. I. Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam.

impediment; hindering; obstructing; impeditive. Things so impediental to success. G. H. Lewes.

ressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity. Whewell.

d in like manner improper and inclose the sunbeams to comfort the rich and not the poor. Jewel.

to put our trust in God. He would not plunge his brother in despair. Addison. She had no jewels to deposit in their caskets. Fielding.

.), a problem which admits of an infinite number of solutions, or one in which there are fewer imposed conditions than there are unknown or required results. -- Indeterminate quantity (Math.), a quantity which has no fixed value, but which may be varied in accordance with any proposed condition. -- Indeterminate seri…

then, as with sinews; to invigorate. [Obs.] All members of our cause, . . . That are insinewed to this action. Shak.

on in advantage, profit, and responsibility; share; portion; part; as, an interest in a brewery; he has parted with his interest in the stocks.

figures (Optics), the figures observed when certain sections of crystallized bodies are viewed in converging polarized light; thus, a section of a uniaxial crystal, cut normal to the vertical axis, shows a series of concentric colored rings with a single black cross; -- so called because produced by the interference of…

Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow; prismatic; as, the iridal colors. Whewell.

of a sail tied up. -- Irish stew, meat, potatoes, and onions, cut in small pieces and stewed.

unsaturated, and used to make synthetic rubber by polymerization. In organic chemistry, viewed conceptually as the building block of the terpene series of hydrocarbons

A coat of defense made of small plates of metal sewed upon linen or the like; also, this kind of armor taken generally; as, a coat of jazerant.

re and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber. Jet ant (Zoöl.), a blackish European ant (Formica fuliginosa), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees.

Revolving around the planet Jupiter; appearing as viewed from Jupiter. [R.] J. R. Hind.

A pitcher; a ewer. [Eng.]

by the adjective "moral" we denote that which has reference to the doctrine of duties. Whewell.