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A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner.

A unit of electromotive force equal to one thousand volts.

An old dance, for two persons, being a kind of waltz, in which the woman made a high spring or bound. Shak.

A dancer of the lavolta.

One of the larger measures of electro-motive force, amounting to one million volts.

A measure of electro-motive force; the millionth part of one volt.

got by casting pearl to hogs, That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when trith would set them free. Milton. HIs clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time. J. Morley.

One who revolts.

Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty. -- Re*volt"ing*ly, adv.

or relating to heat and electricity; especially, relating to thermal effects produced by voltaic action. Faraday.

ting the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.

The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt. Milton. Imperial anarchs doubling human woes. Byron.

The positive pole of a voltaic battery.

al arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night. Electric arc, Voltaic arc. See under Voltaic.

receding century. Its chief center was in France, where it gave rise to the skepticism of Voltaire , the naturalism of Rousseau, the sensationalism of Condillac, and the publication of the "Encyclopedia" by D'Alembert and Diderot. In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Herder were representative thinkers, while the poli…

An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.

ame. Dryden. Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse, A mother's curse, on her revolting son. Shak.

A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects.

terior of gas retorts, and used for the manufacture of the carbon rods of pencils for the voltaic, arc, and for the plates of voltaic batteries, etc.

The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery. Faraday.