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o wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran. Coleridge.

The art of the application of the laws of motion or force to construction. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory; mechanical deposits.

Mechanical operation or action. He acknowledges nothing besides matter and motion; so that all must be performed either by mechanism or accident. Bentley.

of sound. Hence: The condition upon which any event or action occurs; necessary means of motion or action; that through or by which anything is accomplished, conveyed, or carried on; specifically, in animal magnetism, spiritualism, etc., a person through whom the action of another being is said to be manifested and tr…

Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle.

register exhibiting the state of the air and its temperature, weight, dryness, moisture, motion, etc.

An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to measure time in music.

ome cases single organisms shaped like dumb-bells (Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus.

rved three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant.

e uplifted the land floats vague in the ether, Ships and the shadows of ships hang in the motionless air. Longfellow.

A mechamical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.

ne by the moving power, and that yielded at the working points, either constantly, if its motion be uniform, or in the interval of time which it occupies in passing from any given velocity to the same velocity again, if its motion be variable; -- called also the efficiency of the machine. Mosley. Rankine. -- Modulus o…

Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; -- said of the properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms. Carpenter.

Impulsive power; force; momentum. The moments or quantities of motion in bodies. Berkley. Touch, with lightest moment of impulse, His free will. Milton.

The quantity of motion in a moving body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity; impetus.

The act of moving; motion. [Obs.]

Producing motion. [R.]

Having powers of self-motion, though unconscious; as, the motile spores of certain seaweeds.

Capability of motion; contractility.