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An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.

nesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.

ase attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.

Quicklime; also, plaster or mortar. [India] Whitworth.

See Scion. The cion overruleth the stock; and the stock is but passive, and giveth aliment, but no motion, to the graft. Bacon.

An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle.

The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits. A circuit wide inclosed with goodliest trees. Milton.

The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a concial surface.

different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.

To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain. To circumscribe royal power. Bancroft.

Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds.

The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit. The circumscriptions of terrestrial nature. Johnson. I would not my unhoused, free condition Put into circumscription and confine. Shak.

Circumscribing or tending to circumscribe; marcing the limits or form of.

In a limited manner.

In a literal, limited, or narrow manner. [R.] Milton.

To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively. The narrow street that clambered toward the mill. Tennyson.

To daub or smear, as with lime; to make or finish in a slipshod way. [Scot.]

Limping. [R.]

A halting or limping. [R.] Tatler.

ring down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.