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full period and pay all the installments of rent as they become due the contract shall determine and the title vest absolutely in him, and that if he chooses he may at any time during the term surrender the goods and be quit of any liability for future installments upon the contract. In the United States such a contrac…

The upper terminal pipe of a mining pump. Raymond.

an ovum composed entirely of germinal matter. See Meroblast.

Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; -- opposed to meroblastic.

Having the tail nearly or quite symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating near its base; -- opposed to heterocercal.

Homology of the germinal layers.

To determine the homologies or structural relations of.

gy (Biol.), the correspondence of a part or organ with those of a different animal, as determined by relative position and connection. Owen.

A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form - head.

The horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc. On burnished hooves his war horse trode. Tennyson.

The chief horizontal line in a picture of any sort, which determines in the picture the height of the eye of the spectator; in an extended landscape, the representation of the natural horizon corresponds with this line. Apparent horizon. See under Apparent. -- Artificial horizon, a level mirror, as the surface of merc…

Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot. The armies were appointed, consisting of twenty-five thousand horse and foot. Bacon.

formerly occupied the country between Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario, but were nearly exterminated by the Five Nations about 1650.

nd; specif., a court held in London, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant. Mozley & W.

An instrument for determining the depth of the sea water by its pressure.

That branch of surveying which embraces the determination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars.

An instrument for determining the specific gravities of liquids, and thence the strength spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc.

Of or pertaining to an hydrometer, or to the determination of the specific gravity of fluids.

An instrument for determining and recording the quantity of water discharged from a pipe, orifice, etc., in a given time.

The art of determining the specific gravity of liquids, and thence the strength of spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc.