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atical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.

loquizing, or of monopolizing conversation. It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life. De Quincey.

common level of the earth or adjacent land; earth and rock forming an isolated peak or a ridge; an eminence higher than a hill; a mount.

, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving appeal. I sang an old moving story. Coleridge. Moving force (Mech.), a force that accelerates, retards, or deflects the motion of a body. -- Moving plant (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Desmodium gyrans); -- so called because its leaflets have a distinct automatic motion.…

ually embedded in the soil; the lowest timber of a house; also, that sill or timber of a bridge which is laid at the bottom of the water. See Sill.

Multiplicity. [R.] Coleridge.

any different things; of manifold meaning; equivocal. "An ambiguous multivocal word." Coleridge. -- n.

ss, ivory, or other material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone.

Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish. A very narrow and stinted charity. Smalridge.

ited under an independent government of their own. A nation is the unity of a people. Coleridge. Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation. F. S. Key.

ephaly, flat, retreating forehead, with closed frontal sutures, and enormous superciliary ridges. The cranial capacity is estimated at about 1,220 cubic centimeters, being about midway between that of the Pithecanthropus and modern man. Hence, designating the Neanderthal race, or man, a species supposed to have been wi…

near; to approach. A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! And still it neared, and neared. Coleridge.

e petty whin (Genista Anglica). -- Needle gun, a firearm loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying its own fulminate, which is exploded by driving a slender needle, or pin, into it. -- Needle loom (Weaving), a loom in which the weft thread is carried through the shed by a long eye-pointed needle instead of by a…

te or judgment. "Our author happy in a judge so nice." Pope. "Nice verbal criticism." Coleridge.

State of being in excess. [R.] There is a nimiety, a too-muchess, in all Germans. Coleridge.

hak. I am perplx'd and doubtful whether or no I dare accept this your congratulation. Coleridge. There is none righteous, no, not one. Rom. iii. 10. No! Nay, Heaven forbid. Coleridge.

mes of age; legal immaturity; minority. The human mind . . . was still in its nonage. Coleridge.

One who gives a negative vote; -- sometimes abridged into noncon. or non con.

To render trifling or futile; to make silly. [R.] Coleridge.

bject. In the latter, as objectized by the former, arise the emotions and affections. Coleridge.