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resistances, so called because the balance between the resistances to be measured is indicated by the absence of a current in a certain wire forming a bridge or connection between two points of the apparatus; -- invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone.

n; to reduce to obedience. -- To bring up. (a) To carry upward; to nurse; to rear; to educate.

Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.

A variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. It is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family.

One who advocates the Brunonian system of medicine.

ice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise. Nor aught availed him now To have built in heaven high towers. Milton.

A very large species of frog (Rana Catesbiana), found in North America; -- so named from its loud bellowing in spring.

An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold.

namental species of oak (Quercus macrocarpa) with ovoid acorns inclosed in deep cups imbricated with pointed scales. It grows in the Middle and Western United States, and its wood is tough, close-grained, and durable. -- Bur reed (Bot.), a plant of the genus Sparganium, having long ribbonlike leaves.…

An advocate for , or supporter of, bureaucracy.

To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an under tone; to spread, as report, by whispers, or secretly. I will buzz abroad such prophecies That Edward shall be fearful of his life. Shak.

Byssuslike; consisting of fine fibers or threads, as some very delicate filamentous algæ.

Bred by hand; domesticated; petted. He brought his cade lamb with him. Sheldon.

A mineral, the hydrous silicate of zinc.

whether the skull really belonged to the deposit in which it was found. If it did, it indicates an unprecedented antiquity for human beings of an advanced type.

An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.

The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. Knight.

A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret.

The natural color of flesh; rosy pink. Her complexion of the delicate carnation. Ld. Lytton.

That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.