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A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.

The state or symptoms characteristic of asystole.

The quality of being deathless; immortality.

h phrase used in recalling recollections of times long since past. "The days of auld lang syne."

In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.

A system (devised by Henri Pieper, a Belgian) of driving automobiles employing a gasoline engine and an auxiliary reversible dynamo. When there is an excess of power the dynamo is driven by the engine so as to charge a small storage battery; when there is a deficiency of power the dynamo reverses and acts as an auxilia…

The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, "He has gone to town," for, "He has gone to London."

Personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view. By autopsy and experiment. Cudworth.

A positive or nonacid constituent of compound, either elementary, or, if compound, performing the functions of an element.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, a basyle; electro- positive; basic; -- opposed to chlorous. Graham.

See Cloche.

Paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face.

A controversy (1886 --93) between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the clai…

A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.

A Russian sect. See Raskolnik.

Pertaining to psychical phenomena in their relation to the living organism or to the general phenomena of life.

A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and trains are so run by the guidance of electric, or combined electric and pneumatic, signals that no train enters a section or block until the preceding train has left it, as in absolute blocking, or that a train may be allowed to…

Ornamented with bosses; studded.

Drunken; sotted; boozy. In his cups the bousy poet songs. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.