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cow after calving. B. Jonson. The thick and curdy milk . . . commonly called biestings. Newton. (1574).

te eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder. Newts and blindworms do no wrong. Shak.

reccia in appearance. The brecciated appearance of many specimens [of meteorites]. H. A. Newton.

istillation, the water . . . brings over with it some part of the oil of vitriol. Sir I. Newton.

or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat. "Calcining without fusion" Newton.

The side of a thing. [Obs.] Sir I. Newton.

han a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color. Sir I. Newton.

commixed impressions of all the colors do stir up and beget a sensation of white. Sir I. Newton. To commix With winds that sailors rail at. Shak.

odies; firm; close; solid; dense. Glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies. Sir I. Newton.

orm; composing; constituting; constituent. The component parts of natural bodies. Sir I. Newton.

things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition. Sir I. Newton. Composition cloth, a kind of clotch covered with a preparation making it waterproof. -- Composition deed, an agreement for composition between a debtor and several creditors. -- Composition plane (Crystallog.), the plane…

erent size, one within another. Concentric circles upon the surface of the water. Sir I. Newton. Concentrical rings like those of an onion. Arbuthnot.

o bodies. [Obs.] The drop will begin to move toward the concourse of the glasses. Sir I. Newton.

A succession or series of any kind. [Obs.] Sir I. Newton. Month of consecution (Astron.), a month as reckoned from one conjunction of the moon with the sun to another.

did not appear fully divided . . . but seemed contiguous at one of their angles. Sir I. Newton. Sees no contiguous palace rear its head. Goldsmith. Contiguous angles. See Adjacent angles, under Angle.

ction; rubbing. [Obs.] The breaking of their parts into less parts by contrition. Sir I. Newton.

n . . . the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom. Sir I. Newton.

e 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.

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

art; transverse; oblique; intersecting. The cross refraction of the second prism. Sir I. Newton.