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A Roman copper coin, originally of a pound weight (12 oz.); but reduced, after the first Punic war, to two ounces; in the second Punic war, to one ounce; and afterwards to half an ounce.

Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize. Glanvill. Spelman. Cowell. Blackstone. Tomlins. Burrill.

To reduce to atoms. [Obs.] Feltham.

The act of reducing to atoms, or very minute particles; or the state of being so reduced.

To reduce to atoms, or to fine spray. The liquids in the form of spray are said to be pulverized, nebulized, or atomized. Dunglison.

To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease. [Obs.] I would do much To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio. Shak.

To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature. If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still. Trench.

To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean.

To reduce the value of; to debase. [Obs.] Metals which we can not base. Bacon.

Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath. Macaulay.

on between degrees Bé. and Sp. gr. However, readings on Baumés scale may be approximately reduced to specific gravities by the following formulæ (x in each case being the reading on Baumé's scale) : (a) for liquids heavier than water, sp. gr. = 144 ÷ (144 - x);

To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself. Milton.

To reduce (ores). -- Ben`e*fi`ci*a"tion (n.

To reduce to prose. [R.] "To beprose all rhyme." Mallet.

e freedom to carry their commodities where they can make the best of them." Bacon. (b) To reduce to the least possible inconvenience; as, to make the best of ill fortune or a bad bargain.

To reduce to thralldom; to inthrall. [Obs.] Spenser.

ly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.

To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat. To block out, to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out; as, to block out a plan.

but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner. Bacon. To boil down, to reduce in bulk by boiling; as, to boil down sap or sirup.

A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It oc…