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courage, determination.

A detergent medicine or preparation.

which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious declamation, the development of leitmotif, great orchestral elaboration, and a fusion of po…

An instrument for determining and recording the different phases, as the intensity, velocity, etc., of a muscular contraction.

A race or people, as determined by common language and character, and not by political bias or divisions; a nation. the fulfillment of his mission is to be looked for in the condition of nationalities and the character of peoples. H. W. Beecher.

Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or dispos…

ing ships or vessels from one place to another, including, more especially, the method of determining a ship's position, course, distance passed over, etc., on the surface of the globe, by the principles of geometry and astronomy.

the fronds of ferns, and their nervation, are frail characters if employed alone for the determination of existing genera. J. D. Hooker.

An apparatus for determining the amount of nitrogen or some of its compounds in any substance subjected to analysis; an azotometer.

An instrument for determining and registering the duration of more or less complex operations of the mind. Dunglison.

Any melody determined by inviolable rules. [Obs.]

To determine, adjudge, or record (a plaintiff) as having dropped his suit, upon his withdrawal or failure to follow it up. "When two are joined in a writ, and one is nonsuited." Z. Swift.

be, or lie, in a nutshell, to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement. "The remedy lay in a nutshell." Macaulay.

In the manner or state of an object; as, a determinate idea objectively in the mind.

son beset by a spirit from without. Tylor. Whether by obsession or possession, I will not determine. Burton.

ects only were observed, but the nature and relations of whose productive agencies were undetermined; -- so called by the schoolmen. -- Occult sciences, those sciences of the Middle Ages which related to the supposed action or influence of occult qualities, or supernatural powers, as alchemy, magic, necromancy, and as…

....given to their understandings to range in. Locke. Judging is balancing an account and determining on which side the odds lie. Locke.

Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration; as, an open account; an open question; to keep an offer or opportunity open.

nstrument for measuring the limits of distincts vision in different individuals, and thus determiming the proper focal length of a lens for correcting imperfect sight. Brande & C.

"The employment of subjective and objective mechanical means to determine the accomodative and refractive states of the eye and the scope of its function in general."