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A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate.

Of or pertaining to wolframium. See Tungstic.

h specific gravity. It occurs in cleavable masses, and also crystallized. Called also wolfram.

The technical name of the element tungsten. See Tungsten.

A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

nder, number, and case, both words forming a clause by themselves and being unconnected, grammatically, with the rest of the sentence; as, Tarquinio regnante, Pythagoras venit, i. e., Tarquinius reigning, Pythagoras came.

The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven.

The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. Milton.

In relation to the accusative case in grammar.

A plant of the highest class of cryptograms, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia. The Age of Acrogens (Geol.), the age of coal plants, or the carboniferous era.

A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.

aginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.

A female actor or doer. [Obs.] Cockeram.

A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses. Lindley.

ispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament. [Let zephyrs] administer their tepid, genial airs. Philips. Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known. Macaulay.

dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.

A handsome butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles. Admiral shell (Zoöl.), the popular name of an ornamental cone shell (Conus admiralis). Lord High Admiral, a great officer of state, who (when this rare dignity is conferred) is at the head of the naval administration of Great Br…

A cultivated variety of the Asiatic gram, now introduced into the United States.

Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.