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ion in which air or other gas is present in the cavity of the chest; -- called also pneumatothorax.

s (of a vessel) (Naut.), to brace them so that the wind shall strike the sails obliquely. Totten.

One of certain upright timbers on the bilge ways, used to support a vessel in launching. Totten.

irrels. Pouched dog. (Zoöl.) See Zebra wolf, under Zebra. -- Pouched frog (Zoöl.), the nototrema, the female of which has a dorsal pouch in which the eggs are hatched, and in which the young pass through their brief tadpole stage. -- Pouched gopher, or Pouched rat. (Zoöl.) See Pocket gopher, under Pocket. -- Pouched…

t, so that the ordinary image produced by double refraction is thrown out of the field by total reflection from the internal cemented surface, and the extraordinary, or polarized, image alone is transmitted.

To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.

the first martyr; protomorphic, primitive in form; protoplast, a primordial organism; prototype, protozoan.

s protocalcium, protochromium, protocopper, protonickel, protosilicon, protostrontium, prototitanium, protovanadium. -- Pro`to*me*tal"ic (#), a.

Same as Odontotormæ.

r tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants. Pure-impure, completely or totally impure. "The inhabitants were pure-impure pagans." Fuller. -- Pure blue. (Chem.) See Methylene blue, under Methylene. -- Pure chemistry. See under Chemistry. -- Pure mathematics, that portion of mathematics which treats…

The office of purser. Totten.

), several pieces of timber at the after- part of the quarter gallery, near the taffrail. Totten. -- Quarter point. (Naut.) See Quarter, n., 1 (n). -- Quarter railing, or Quarter rails (Naut.), narrow molded planks reaching from the top of the stern to the gangway, serving as a fence to the quarter-deck. -- Quarter…

attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master. Totten. Quartermaster general (Mil.), in the United States a staff officer, who has the rank of brigadier general and is the chief officer in the quartermaster's department; in England, an officer of high rank stationed at the War…

Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly; as, the work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite mistaken. Man shall not quite be lost, but saved who will. Milton. The same actions may be aimed at different ends, and arise from quite contrary principles. Spectator.

fessor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians.

e shrouds and forming the steps of a rope ladder. [Written also ratlings, and rattlings.] Totten.

One of the component elements of the total radiation from a body; any definite or limited portion of the spectrum; as, the red ray; the violet ray. See Illust. under Light.

way, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate. Totten.

ur conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle).

A common Old World limicoline bird (Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (T. fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee.