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te particles of matter. -- Corpuscular theory (Opt.), the theory enunciated by Sir Isaac Newton, that light consists in the emission and rapid progression of minute particles or corpuscles. The theory is now generally rejected, and supplanted by the undulatory theory.

chronometer correction; compass correction. Correction line (Surv.), a parallel used as a new base line in laying out township in the government lands of the United States. The adoption at certain intervals of a correction line is necessitated by the convergence of of meridians, and the statute requirement that the tow…

One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical.

A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.

To go on prosperously; to succeed. [Obs.] New, Hephestion, does not this matter cotton as I would Lyly.

er restraining force; a check upon a check. The system of checks and counterchecks. J. H. Newton.

ing; harmony; polyphonic music. See Polyphony. Counterpoint, an invention equivalent to a new creation of music. Whewell.

The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties. Dryden.

A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper.

THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. Pennant.

show, ne court, nor dalliance. Spenser. I went to make my court to the Dike and Duches of Newcastle. Evelyn.

Could; was able; knew or known; understood. [Obs.] Above all other one Daniel He loveth, for he couth well Divine, that none other couth; To him were all thing couth, As he had it of God's grace. Gower.

quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.

as, the craft of ironmongers. The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds to the new craft guilds. J. R. Green.

a well-known freestone peach, wich yellow flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey.

A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the æsthetic craze. Various crazes concerning health and disease. W. Pater.

laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew. Your eye in Scotland Would create soldiers. Shak. Create in me a clean heart. Ps. li. 10.

erse or this world into existence. From the creation to the general doom. Shak. As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation. Locke.

yer, are more than any others to be credited with the clear enunciation of this doctrine. Newman.

Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon.