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her phrases from the Latin, see Quotations, Phrases, etc., from Foreign Languages, in the Supplement.]

scendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas.

in reserve; he has evidence or arguments in reserve. -- Reserve air. (Physiol.) Same as Supplemental air, under Supplemental.

ven by the most violent expiratory effort. It amounts to from 75 to 100 cubic inches. Cf. Supplemental air, under Supplemental. -- Residual error. (Mensuration) See Error, 6 (b). -- Residual figure (Geom.), the figure which remains after a less figure has been taken from a greater one. -- Residual magnetism (Physics…

Filling up; supplementary; supernumerary; -- a term applied to those instruments which only swell the mass or tutti of an orchestra, but are not obbligato.

Schizophyta, including the so-called fission fungi, or bacteria. See Schizophyta, in the Supplement.

system of marine-engine governing to connect both ends of the low-pressure cylinder as a supplementary control.

A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802]. Spencer mast, a small mast just abaft the foremast or mainmast, for hoisting th…

Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath.

That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See Tack, v. t., 3. Macaulay. Some tacks had been made to money bills in King Charles's time. Bp. Burnet.

It is a summer stage preceding the teleutospore, or winter stage. See Uredinales, in the Supplement.

r spore which is produced during the so- called Uredo stage of certain rusts. See (in the Supplement) Uredinales, Heteroecious, etc.

A figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to another more remote; as, "hic illius arma, hic currus fuit;" where fuit, which agrees directly with currus, is referred also to arma.