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Pertaining to the variation of tensile strength with the temperature.

a determinate temperature, and giving to it, while in that state, a mechanical strain or tension in the direction in which the strength is afterward to be exerted.

from registration of deeds) introduced into South Australia by the Real Property (or Torrens) Act (act 15 of 1857-58), drafted by Sir Robert Torrens (1814-84). Its essential feature is the guaranty by the government of properly registered titles. The system has been generally adopted in Australia and British Columbia,…

All together; hence, in costume, the fine arts, etc., the general effect of a work as a whole, without regard to the execution of the separate perts.

The act of transcending, or surpassing; also, passage over. [Obs.] Chapman.

Having three dimensions; extended in three different directions.

A Roman copper coin, equal to one third of the as. See 3d As, 2.

Unable to comprehend. Narrow-spirited, uncomprehensive zealots. South.

Indispensable.

Not dispensed.

Inexpensive. Milton.

Having but one dimension. See Dimension.

The extension of the advantages of university instruction by means of lectures and classes at various centers.

Inoffensive.

Wanting a distinct meaning; having no certain signification. [R.] Puller.

Insensible. [Obs.]

To elevate from the domain of the senses; to purify. Coleridge.

t or vessel used in a kitchen, or in domestic and farming business. Wagons fraught with utensils of war. Milton.

The pressure or tension of a confined body of vapor. The pressure of a given saturated vapor is a function of the temperature only, and may be measured by introducing a small quantity of the substance into a barometer and noting the depression of the column of mercury.

A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles.