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Duplicity; insincerity. Chaucer.

An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.

Like a dove; harmless; innocent. "Joined with dovish simplicity." Latimer.

Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction. The Hertfordshire wheel plow . . . is of the easiest draught. Mortimer.

ink and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.

Scarcity; lack. A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of all history. Fuller.

A crowd of people in motion. Where droves, as at a city gate, may pass. Dryden.

Having eyes wanting brightness, liveliness, or vivacity. Shak.

As natural science has become more dynamic, so has history. Prof. Shedd. Dynamical electricity. See under Electricity.

Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.

physical units; that is, the force which, acting on a gram for a second, generates a velocity of a centimeter per second.

with frugality; as, to economize one's income. [Written also economise.] Expenses in the city were to be economized. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Calculating how to economize time. W. Irving.

ic. Capable of being drawn out by force like a piece of elastic gum, and by its own elasticity returning, when the force is removed, to its former position. Paley.

The quality of being elastic; elasticity.

Acting force; elasticity. [Obs.] Ray.

A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.

Pertaining to electricity; consisting of, containing, derived from, or produced by, electricity; as, electric power or virtue; an electric jar; electric effects; an electric spark.

In the manner of electricity, or by means of it; thrillingly.

An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.

Capable of receiving electricity, or of being charged with it.