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mination, the final university examination for classical honors, optional to all who have taken the mathematical honors. C. A. Bristed. -- Tripos paper, a printed list of the successful candidates for mathematical honors, accompanied by a piece in Latin verse. There are two of these, designed to commemorate the two tr…

Anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc. Around the posts hung helmets, darts, and spears, And captive chariots, axes, shields, and bars, And broken beaks of ships, the trophies of their wars. Dryden.

The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively. Weale.

name for a catboat; -- so called because Una was the name of the first boat of this kind taken to England. D. Kemp.

Not taken or arrested. R. Junius.

Not bereft; not taken away.

A member of a university or a college who has not taken his first degree; a student in any school who has not completed his course.

Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs have taken an unhappy turn.

ude or number, regarded as an undivided whole. Abstract unit, the unit of numeration; one taken in the abstract; the number represented by 1. The term is used in distinction from concrete, or determinate, unit, that is, a unit in which the kind of thing is expressed; a unit of measure or value; as 1 foot, 1 dollar, 1 p…

Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity.

Taken from the purse; expended. [Obs.] Gower.

Not yielded. [Obs.] "[By] force . . . is he taken unyolden." Sir T. Browne.

ast extremity; the end; death; outrance. [Obs.] Annibal forced those captives whom he had taken of our men to skirmish one against another to the utterance. Holland.

To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.

The rhachis and web of a feather taken together.

A substance in which medicine is taken.

The rhachis and web of a feather taken together; the vane.

to vacate; to annul; to nullify. After they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken. Bp. Burnet. It was become a practice . . . to void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed. Clarendon.

cloth, and Simplicity brought in the voider. Decker. The cloth whereon the earl dined was taken away, and the voider, wherein the plate was usually put, was set upon the cupboard's head. Hist. of Richard Hainam.

ing imported articles in the customhouse stores, without payment of duties until they are taken out for home consumption. If reëxported, they are not charged with a duty. See Bonded warehouse, under Bonded, a.