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inary; -- applied to the usual English spelling, in distinction from strictly phonetic methods. H Sweet. -- n.

he nones were nine days before the ides, reckoning inclusively, according to the Roman method.

A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions.

A drowning of many persons at once, -- a method of execution practiced at Nantes in France during the Reign of Terror, by Jean Baptiste Carrier.

That which has no value; a cipher; zero. Bacon. Null method (Physics.), a zero method. See under Zero.

vely applied to the art of reading numbers written in the scale of tens, by the Arabic method. Davies & Peck.

de use of. -- Object staff. (Leveling) Same as Leveling staff. -- Object teaching, a method of instruction, in which illustrative objects are employed, each new word or idea being accompanied by a representation of that which it signifies; -- used especially in the kindergarten, for young children.

According to the French method of numeration (which method is followed also in the United States) the number expressed by a unit with twenty-seven ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-eight ciphers annexed. See Numeration.

To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.

The method of working; mode of action.

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as:

One who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates.

According to due order; regularly; methodically; duly. You are blunt; go to it orderly. Shak.

According to established rules or settled method; as a rule; commonly; usually; in most cases; as, a winter more than ordinarily severe. Those who ordinarily pride themselves not a little upon their penetration. I. Taylor.

According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison.

Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical. "A life blissful and ordinate." Chaucer. Ordinate figure (Math.), a figure whose sides and angles are equal; a regular figure.

An organ or instrument; hence, a method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted; -- a term adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon, as the title ("Novum Organon") of part of his treatise on philosophical method. Sir. W. Hamilton.

Any one of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.

A combining form signifying straight, right, upright, correct, regular; as, orthodromy, orthodiagonal, orthodox, orthographic.

iven to the two planes in the monoclinic system which are parallel to the vertical and orthodiagonal axes.