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of the year; hence, one on which any payment, especially rent, becomes due. In matters influenced by United States statutes, quarter days are the first days of January, April, July, and October. In New York and many other places, as between landlord and tenant, they are the first days of May, August, November, and Feb…

To move or influence by railing. [R.] Rail the seal from off my bond. Shak.

ally a private, understanding; in mesmerism, in that relation of sympathy which permits influence or communication.

Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as. If these examples of grown men reach not the case of children, let them examine. Locke.

The influence of a coil of wire upon an alternating current passing through it, tending to choke or diminish the current, or the similar influence of a condenser; inductive resistance. Reactance is measured in ohms. The reactance of a circuit is equal to the component of the impressed electro-motive force at right angl…

Governed by reason; being under influence of reason; thinking, speaking or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason; just; rational; as, the measure must satisfy all reasonable men. By indubitable certainty, I mean that which doth not admit of any reasonable cause of doubting. Bp.…

A flowing back; refluence.

Of or pertaining to regeneration; tending to regenerate; as, regenerative influences. H. Bushnell. Regenerative furnace (Metal.), a furnace having a regenerator in which gas used for fuel, and air for supporting combustion, are heated; a Siemens furnace.

To bring under the influence of religion. [R.] Mallock.

Of the nature of reverberation; tending to reverberate; reflective. This reverberative influence is that which we have intended above, as the influence of the mass upon its centers. I. Taylor.

To influence by rhyme. Hearken to a verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good. Herbert.

akes one rich; an abundance of land, goods, money, or other property; wealth; opulence; affluence. Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion, than our neighbors. Locke.

To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.

To control or direct by influence, counsel, or persuasion; to guide; -- used chiefly in the passive. I think she will be ruled In all respects by me. Shak.

One who dreads Russia or Russian influence. [Words sometimes found in the newspapers.]

Morbid dread of Russia or of Russian influence.

Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence. Sacred truths cleared from all rust and dross of human mixtures. Eikon Basilike.

To sanctify; to bless so as to protect from evil influence. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

t San Francisco; as, the sand-lot constitution of California, framed in 1879, under the influence of sand-lot agitation.

Born under, or influenced by, the planet Saturn.