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eclaration which gives to the person to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of a specified act. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. Gal. iii. 18.

A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Cf. Prove, v. t., 5.

A statement in terms of a truth to be demonstrated, or of an operation to be performed.

The part where the actors performed; the stage.

-- Puppet player, one who manages the motions of puppets. -- Puppet show, a mock drama performed by puppets moved by wires. -- Puppet valve, a valve in the form of a circular disk, which covers a hole in its seat, and opens by moving bodily away from the seat while remaining parallel with it, -- used in steam engin…

urposive modification of structure in a bone. Owen. It is impossible that the frog should perform actions morepurposive than these. Huxley.

A composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument.

as, run quick; get back quick. If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed. Locke.

A medley improvised by several performers.

The method or art of performing arithmetical operations by means of Napier's bones. See Napier's bones. [Written also rhabdology.]

Of or performance to roots, or the root of a plant.

Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.

To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.

To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document. So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. Neh. viii. 8.

The second of two amputations performed upon the same member.

To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Ps. cxxvi. 5.

To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.

A vocal or instrumental performance by one person; -- distinguished from concert; as, a song recital; an organ, piano, or violin recital.

eing admissible. Blackstone. -- To beat, or break, the record (Sporting), to surpass any performance of like kind as authoritatively recorded; as, to break the record in a walking match.

To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises. I will redeem all this on Percy's head. Shak.