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ng to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. The assumption of authority. Whewell.

the sphere on the plane of a great circle, as the equator, or a meridian; a planisphere. Whewell.

Of or pertaining to atmology. "Atmological laws of heat." Whewell.

That branch of science which treats of the laws and phenomena of aqueous vapor. Whewell.

The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine. Whewell.

A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. I is a woody climber with ovate manynerved leaves.

The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime.

ic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.

Breadthwise. Whewell.

ity. Attribute superior sagacity and candor to those who held that side of the question. Whewell.

A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars. The catasterisms of Eratosthenes. Whewell.

e earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes. Whewell.

e action or power of a cause, in producing its effect. The causality of the divine mind. Whewell.

gency by which an effect is produced. The kind of causation by which vision is produced. Whewell. Law of universal causation, the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is the sequel of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being present, the other is certain to take place.…

s, the celebrity of Washington. An event of great celebrity in the history of astronomy. Whewell.

esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. The chair of a philosophical school. Whewell. A chair of philology. M. Arnold.

ion of something alleged. The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena. Whewell.

o meditate. Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. Deut. xxiv. 6.

ansmission. The true doctrines of astronomy appear to have had some popular circulation. Whewell.

situated. The proposition is, that two bodies so circumstanced will balance each other. Whewell.