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f the subject matter and attendant circumstances in connection with the words employed. Abbott. Interpretation properly precedes construction, but it does not go beyond the written text. Parsons. Construction of an equation (Math.), the drawing of such lines and figures as will represent geometrically the quantities in…

xperience and then we come to a manly resolution of acting in contradiction to it. Burke. Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be true. Hobbes. Of contradictions infinite the slave. Wordsworth. Principle of contradiction (Logic), the axiom or law of thought that a thing cannot be and not be at the same time,…

propositions with the same terms, but opposed to each other both in quality and quantity.

ity, they are contraries; as, every vine is a tree; no vine is a tree. These can never be both true together; but they may be both false. I. Watts.

able to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness. Abbott.

One who carries on a controversy; a disputant. He [Johnson] was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made. Macaulay.

shortsighted men . . . the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom. Sir I. Newton.

s, as of place, time, etc.; propriety. Let's futher think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape. Shak. With all brief and plain conveniency, Let me have judgment. Shak.

lly form themselves into figures with a convex surface. Whewell. Double convex, convex on both sides; convexo-convex.

Convex on botConvex, a.

A local name of the burbot. [Eng.]

An order of Entomastraca, including many minute Crustacea, both freshwater and marine.

A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze.

The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper.

d by officers having charge of the originals, and authorized to give copies officially. Abbot.

they constitute separate islands, usually inclosing a lagoon. See Atoll. -- Coral root (Bot.), a genus (Corallorhiza) of orchideous plants, of a yellowish or brownish red color, parasitic on roots of other plants, and having curious jointed or knotted roots not unlike some kinds of coral. See Illust. under Coralloid.…

The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

The charge made by innkeepers for drawing the cork and taking care of bottles of wine bought elsewhere by a guest.

having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.

An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles. Corkscrew starts, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.