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maimed for high attempts. Milton. Attempt to commit a crime (Law), such an intentional preparatory act as will apparently result, if not extrinsically hindered, in a crime which it was designed to effect. Wharton.

end to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition. All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another. Derham.

aw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.

Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for separating from the Roman Catholic church.

Passing through all its stages on one host, as certain parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with heterocious.

shment; -- said of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, as opposed to parasitism or saprophytism.

A tearing asunder; a forcible separation. The avulsion of two polished superficies. Locke.

mechanical powers. -- Axis of a curve (Geom.), a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords of a curve; called a principal axis, when cutting them at right angles, in which case it divides the curve into two symmetrical portions, as in the parabola, which has one such axis, the ellipse, which has two, or…

The universal remedy of Paracelsus.

An apparatus for measuring or determining the proportion of nitrogen; a nitrometer.

A blue color, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.

The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover.

A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.

ithout scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.

A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking. Numb. xxii. 30. [Cant] Balaam basket or box (Print.), the receptacle for rejected articles. Blackw. Mag.

An apparatus for weighing.

g from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.

within which the cue balls are placed in beginning a game; also, a line around the table, parallel to the sides, used in playing a particular game, called the balk line game.

Of or pertaining to the sea which separates Norway and Sweden from Jutland, Denmark, and Germany; situated on the Baltic Sea.

A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.