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That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale.

A current alternating in direction.

The act of oscillating; a swinging or moving backward and forward, like a pendulum; vibration.

Tending to oscillate; vibratory. [R.] I. Taylor.

Any device for producing electric oscillations; esp., an apparatus for generating electric waves in a system of wireless telegraphy.

Same as Oscillaria.

Moving, or characterized by motion, backward and forward like a pendulum; swinging; oscillating; vibratory; as, oscillatory motion.

An autographic record made by an oscillograph.

pparatus for recording or indicating alternating-current wave forms or other electrical oscillations, usually consisting of a galvanometer with strong field, in which the mass of the moving part is very small and frequency of vibration very high. -- Os`cil*lo*graph"ic (#), a.

An instrument for measuring the angle through which a ship rolls or pitches at sea.

An instrument for showing visually the changes in a varying current; an oscillograph.

Shaped like a pencil; penicillate.

Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel's-hair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.

Penicillate.

Same as Pilon. [Texas]

A follower of Priscillian, bishop of Avila in Spain, in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of Gnosticism and Manicheism with Christianity.

To refresh; to revive. [Obs.] Aubrey.

Restoration of strength by refreshment. [Obs.] Middleton.

A glucoside extracted from squill (Scilla) as a light porous substance.

A bitter principle extracted from the bulbs of the squill (Scilla), and probably consisting of a complex mixture of several substances.