Search the Dictionary

Having a radiated form, like a sea anemone.

The property of radiant energy (found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography.

Having the form of rays; radiated, as an actinia.

One of the radial segments composing the body of one of the Coelenterata.

The measurement of the force of solar radiation. Maury.

nder Cautery. -- Actual sin (Theol.), that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to "original sin."

An acid radical, as acetyl, malonyl, or benzoyl.

officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.

purious; without the support of law; illegal. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

Injury; degradation; ruin. [Obs.] You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature. B. Jonson.

erring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes. Chesterfield.…

Coming from outward causes; superadded. [Obs.]

fends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.

s wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between. Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh. 1 Kings iii. 1.

liary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough. The merchant can afford to trade for smaller profits. Hamilton. He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer. Wordsworth.

rn." Pope. The way which the age follows. J. H. Newman. Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.

A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti.

The three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) of South America. See Sloth.

In gasoline-engine motor vehicles, the cooling of the cylinder by increasing its radiating surface by means of ribs or radiators, and placing it so that it is exposed to a current of air. Cf. Water cooling. -- Air"-cooled`, a.

isting of a basic iodide and gallate of bismuth, sometimes used in place of iodoform. [A Trademark]