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; wholly; altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.] -- Neck and neck (Racing), so nearly equal that one cannot be said to be before the other; very close; even; side by side. -- Neck of a capital. (Arch.) See Gorgerin. -- Neck of a cascabel (Gun.), the part joining the knob to the base of the breech. -- Neck of a g…

Constituting or being one of nineteen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Constituting or being one of ninety equal parts.

Constituting or being one of nine equal parts into which anything is divided.

A short turn in a rope. Nip and tuck, a phrase signifying equality in a contest. [Low, U.S.]

Not condensing; discharging the steam from the cylinder at a pressure nearly equal to or above that of the atmosphere and not into a condenser.

of a sort that there is no other such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc.

Something of unequaled excellence; a peerless thing or person; a nonesuch; -- often used as a name.

The point between the north and east, at an equal distance from each; the northeast part or region.

The point in the horizon between the north and west, and equally distant from each; the northwest part or region.

A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation. And on the stick ten equal notches makes. Swift.

To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand. Thy tears can not number the dead. Campbell. Numbering machine, a machine for printing consecutive numbers, as on railway tickets, bank bills, etc.

ion) or place with eight sides or angles. Regular octagon, one in which the sides are all equal, and the angles also are all equal.

A solid bounded by eight faces. The regular octahedron is contained by eight equal equilateral triangles.

th tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones.

avor of one and against another; excess of one of two things or numbers over the other; inequality; advantage; superiority; hence, excess of chances; probability. "Preëminent by so much odds." Milton. "The fearful odds of that unequal fray." Trench. The odds Is that we scare are men and you are gods. Shak. There appear…

The C.G.S. unit of magnetic reluctance or resistance, equal to the reluctance of a centimeter cube of air (or vacuum) between parallel faces. Also, a reluctance in which unit magnetomotive force sets up unit flux.

ectrical Congress in 1893, and by United States Statute, it is a resistance substantially equal to 109 units of resistance of the C.G.S. system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grams…

A Turkish and Egyptian weight, equal to about 2

One of the tertiary colors, composed of violet and green mixed in equal strength and proportion.