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l the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model.

The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.

One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead.

The difference by which fine gold or silver exceeds in fineness the standard.

Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.

A photometric standard used in France, having the value of one twentieth of the Violle platinum standard, or slightly less than a British standard candle. Called also decimal candle.

A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge.

tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.

The unit of heat according to the Frensc standard; the amount of heat requires to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0Foot pound.

om.), illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle. Electric candle, A modification of the electric arc lamp, in which the carbon rods, instead of being placed end to end, are arranged side by side, and at a distance suitable for the formation of the arc at the tip…

The illumination produced by a British standard candle at a distance of one foot; --used as a unit of illumination.

The illumination given by a standard candle at a distance of one meter; -- used as a unit of illumination, except in Great Britain.

Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.

of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the differences in vertical height are thus shown on the graduated standard. [Written also kathetometer.]…

dex (Anat.), the ratio of the breadth of the cranium to the length, which is taken as the standard, and equal to 100; the breadth index. -- Cephalic vein, a large vein running from the back of the head alond the arm; -- so named because the ancients used to open it for disorders of the head. Dunglison.…

s over a circle graduated to 360º, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.

Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact; strict; as, a close translation. Locke.

he measure of length and surface by which cloth is measured and sold. For this object the standard yard is usually divided into quarters and nails. -- Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth shearer, one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous nap.…

easuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.

cal analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.