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A mean, sordid person; a niggard. Norris.

A witness by means of his ears; one who is within hearing and does hear; a hearer. Fuller.

Relating to the means of living, or the resources and wealth of a country; relating to political economy; as, economic purposes; economical truths. These matters economical and political. J. C. Shairp. There was no economical distress in England to prompt the enterprises of colonization. Palfrey. Economic questions, su…

One of the descendants of Esau or Edom, the brother of Jacob; an Idumean.

Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; -- with to. They spake to her to that effect. 2 Chron. xxxiv. 22.

ft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak. The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor. Bacon. An effeminate and unmanly foppery. Bp. Hurd.

By means of a woman; by the power or art of a woman. [R.] "Effeminately vanquished." Milton.

Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas

culty (Metaph.), the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.

of electricity traversing a closed circuit formed of conducting substances, or passing by means of conductors from one body to another which is in a different electrical state. -- Electric, or Electrical, eel (Zoöl.), a South American eel-like fresh-water fish of the genus Gymnotus (G. electricus), from two to five fe…

In the manner of electricity, or by means of it; thrillingly.

The art or science of measuring the force or velocity of projectiles by means of electricity.

The art or process of engraving by means of electricity.

The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.

Gilded by means of voltaic electricity.

by a current of electricity; the science which treats of the development of magnetism by means of voltaic electricity, and of the properties or actions of the currents evolved.

Pertaining to electrometry; made by means of electrometer; as, an electrometrical experiment.

its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.

Pertaining to the electric telegraph, or by means of it.

science of constructing or using the electric telegraph; the transmission of messages by means of the electric telegraph.