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Ascent; height; elevation. [R.] Sciences that were then in their highest ascendant. Temple.

sphere, and hence for judging of the probable changes of weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent.

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs. [Archaic] Shak.

A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall.

n the beauty. Jer. Taylor. Beauty spot, a patch or spot placed on the face with intent to heighten beauty by contrast.

Steps for mounting a bed of unusual height.

be referred. Specif. : A horizontal mark at the water's edge with reference to which the height of tides and floods may be measured.

The height of the fashion; fashionable society.

, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward to a considerable height, and finally taking a retrograde direction, so as to fall near the place from which it was thrown, or even far in the rear of it.

ation or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.

The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.

as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.

A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.

Colossal' of extraordinary height; gigantic. -- n.

A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease.

A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.

laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.

f the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite.

rs, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap.

nd rivers. It is the largest extant rodent, being about three feet long, and half that in height. It somewhat resembles the Guinea pig, to which it is related; -- called also cabiai and water hog.