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Aside; off; in another direction. The axis of rotation is inclined away from the sun. Lockyer.

he line taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other. Faraday.

which compose it. -- Axes of coördinates in a plane, to straight lines intersecting each other, to which points are referred for the purpose of determining their relative position: they are either rectangular or oblique. -- Axes of coördinates in space, the three straight lines in which the coördinate planes intersec…

haracterized by a five- membered ring which contains an atom of nitrogen and at least one other noncarbon atom (nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur). The prefixes furo-, thio, and pyrro-are used to distinguish three subclasses of azoles, which may be regarded as derived respectively from furfuran, thiophene, and pyrrol by replac…

Excess of urea or other nitrogenous substances in the urine.

. Babies in the eyes, the minute reflection which one sees of one's self in the eyes of another. She clung about his neck, gave him ten kisses, Toyed with his locks, looked babies in his eyes. Heywood.

A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight.

a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. Hop back, Jack back, the cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper. -- Wash back, a vat in which distillers ferment the wort to form was…

An instrument which, in conjunction with another making an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust.

A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus.

ter; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [Now dialectic, Eng.]

The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit. [Prov. Eng.]

t baffle us. Locke. Baffling wind (Naut.), one that frequently shifts from one point to another.

A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.

Cloth or other material for bags.

ian state papers, and colloquially, and among the natives, to distinguished officials and other important personages.

(Mirza Husain Ali, entitled "Baha 'u 'llah," or, "the Splendor of God"), the elder half brother of Mirza Yahya of Nur, who succeeded the Bab as the head of the Babists. Baha in 1863 declared himself the supreme prophet of the sect, and became its recognized head. There are upwards of 20,000 Bahais in the United States.…

To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed.

A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed. Blackstone.