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orted by the college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. A servitor corresponded to a sizar in Cambridge and Dublin universities.

To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish. [Obs.] Tusser.

rities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron. Shingling hammer, a ponderous hammer moved by machinery, used in shingling puddled iron. -- Shingling mill, a mill or forge where puddled iron is shingled.

A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow. The depth of your pond should be six feet; and on the sides some shoals for the fish to lay their span. Mortimer. Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor. Shak.

rough certain of their side chains, but only when these side chains have a definite correspondence in structure (this account for the specific action of antitoxins).

Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like.

Being in reality what it appears to be; having a character which corresponds with the appearance; not falsely assumed; genuine; true; real; as, a sincere desire for knowledge; a sincere contempt for meanness. A sincere intention of pleasing God in all our actions. Law.

The third month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year; -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of June.

d a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford. The sizar paid nothing for food and tuition, and very little for lodging. Macaulay.

ce of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.

in which the elements in each column of the matrix are equal to the elements of the corresponding row of the matrix with the signs changed, as in (1), below. (1) 0 2 -3-2 0 53 -5 0 (2) 4 -1 71 8 -2-7 2 1

g a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail.

nails with which the Savior was fastened to the cross; -- an ancient form of oath, corresponding to 'Od's bodikins (dim. of body, i.e., God's dear body). Beau & Fl.

A dirty pond. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

In a somber manner; sombrously; gloomily; despondingly.

A tracing, called a pulse tracing, consisting of a series of curves corresponding with the beats of the heart, obtained by the application of the sphygmograph.

The squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone correspondending to it, under Temporal.

Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just. She's a most truimphant lady, if report be square to her. Shak.

t or steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of motion; as, a stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the veins.

tmosphere. -- Saturated steam, steam at the temperature of the boiling point which corresponds to its pressure; -- sometimes also applied to wet steam. -- Superheated steam, steam heated to a temperature higher than the boiling point corresponding to its pressure. It can not exist in contact with water, nor contain w…