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ene, lepidolite, triphylite, etc., and otherwise widely disseminated, though in small quantities.

Divided by internal partitions into cells, as the pith of the pokeweed.

The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected. The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify…

t of employing the powers of nature to produce effects apparently supernatural. -- Superstitious, or Geotic, magic, the invocation of devils or demons, involving the supposition of some tacit or express agreement between them and human beings.

, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A. campestre, t…

Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preëminence. The voice of them that shout for mastery. Ex. xxxii. 18. Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. 1 Cor. ix. 25. O, but to have gulled him Had been a mastery. B. Jonson.

Equality of conditions in contest or competition. It were no match, your nail against his horn. Shak.

t science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities or magnitudes, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; the science of spatial and quantitative relations.…

A rectangular arrangement of symbols in rows and columns. The symbols may express quantities or operations.

ional (between two numbers) (Math.), the square root of their product. -- Mean sun, a fictitious sun supposed to move uniformly in the equator so as to be on the meridian each day at mean noon. -- Mean time, time as measured by an equable motion, as of a perfect clock, or as reckoned on the supposition that all the d…

A partition; a septum; specifically, the folds of the pleura (and the space included between them) which divide the thorax into a right and left cavity. The space included between these folds of the pleura, called the mediastinal space, contains the heart and gives passage to the esophagus and great blood vessels.…

A two-winged fly (Ceratitis capitata) with black and white markings, native of the Mediterranean countries, but now widely distributed. Its larva lives in ripening oranges, peaches, and other fruits, causing them to decay and fall.

government, or to some branch of it, or to a society, etc., -- often accompanied with a petition.

To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature. T. Hook.

One who petitions by a memorial. T. Hook.

cterized by separation into two or more parts or sections by the formation of internal partitions; as, merismatic growth, where one cell divides into many.

One of the vertical muscular radiating partitions which divide the body cavity of Anthozoa into chambers.

A repetition at the end of a stanza.

A white waxy substance, found in small quantities in spermaceti as an ethereal salt of several fatty acids, and regarded as an alcohol of the methane series.

A woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female practitioner of the obstetric art.