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A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.

res are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.

A cross formed of two strips of different metals, to illustrate the Peltier effect.

To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.

Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear. The thunderlike percussion of thy sounds. Shak.

Making or doing throughly; efficient; effectual. [R.] Blackstone.

The continuance of an effect after the cause which first gave rise to it is removed; as: (a) (Physics)

The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects, by means of which the eye recognized them as being at a more or less measurable distance. Hence, aërial perspective, the assumed greater vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects. Aërial perspective is the expression of space by any means whatsoever, s…

An optical effect produced by a magic lantern. The figures are painted in transparent colors, and all the rest of the glass is opaque black. The screen is between the spectators and the instrument, and the figures are often made to appear as in motion, or to merge into one another.

That branch of pharmacology which treats of the action and the effects of medicines.

That branch of pharmacology which considers the mode of action, and the effects, of medicines. Dunglison.

The branch of chemistry which relates to the effect of light in producing chemical changes, as in photography.

A device for giving shifting effects of color to a photograph. The unmounted print, made translucent, is illuminated from behind with colored light.

Anything employed for the observation of light or luminous effects.

To be sequeamish or delicate; hence, to act or talk triflingly or ineffectively; to twaddle; piddle. [Dial. or Slang]

ocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.

Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for. My word hath no place in you. John viii. 37.

emperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster.

ounded surface and constituting the material of repair by which the process of healing is effected. -- Plastic foods. (Physiol.) See the second Note under Food. -- Plastic force. (Physiol.) See under Force. -- Plastic operation, an operation in plastic surgery. -- Plastic surgery, that branch of surgery which is co…

Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. [Slang, Southwestern U.S.]