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and blue, respectively) are superimposed. Each image is given its own primary color, and these colors blend and reproduce the colors of the object.

To express in words, or in peculiar words; to call; to style. "These suns -- for so they phrase 'em." Shak.

northen hemisphere, including the Norway spruce and the American black and white spruces. These trees have pendent cones, which do not readily fall to pieces, in this and other respects differing from the firs.

Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate. "These piecemeal guilts." Gov. of Tongue.

ibbee Islands; - - so called because its presence indicates to mariners their approach to these islands. Crabb. (b) The black-bellied plover. [Local, U.S.] -- Pilot boat, a strong, fast-sailing boat used to carry and receive pilots as they board and leave vessels. -- Pilot bread, ship biscuit. -- Pilot cloth, a coars…

known from bones of a single individual found in Java (hence called Java man) in 1891-92. These bones include a thigh bone of the human type, two molar teeth intermediate between those of man and the anthropoids, and the calvaria of the skull, indicating a brain capacity of about 900 cubic centimeters, and resembling i…

ous energy; forceful; cogent. This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed. Dryden. In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy. Addison. Pithy gall (Zoöl.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly (Diastrophus nebulosus).

n. (c) To take effect; to prevail. "If your doctrine takes place." Berkeley. "But none of these excuses would take place." Spenser. -- To take the place of, to be substituted for.

An original settlement in a new country; a colony. While these plantations were forming in Connecticut. B. Trumbull.

A small pool of standing water; a puddle. Bacon. "These shallow plashes." Barrow.

p of metallic elements which in their chemical and physical properties resemble platinum. These consist of the light platinum group, viz., rhodium, ruthenium, and palladium, whose specific gravities are about 12; and the heavy platinum group, viz., osmium, iridium, and platinum, whose specific gravities are over 21. -…

g pleasure or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent. Heavenly stranger, please to taste These bounties. Milton. That he would please 8give me my liberty. Swift.

peated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer plies between certain ports. Ere half these authors be read (which will soon be with plying hard and daily). Milton. He was forced to ply in the streets as a porter. Addison. The heavy hammers and mallets plied. Longfellow.

receive an affront without open resentment, or without seeking redress. "I must pocket up these wrongs." Shak.

A substance capable of crystallizing in several distinct forms; also, any one of these forms. Cf. Allomorph.

The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.

A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole. These are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him! Job xxvi. 14. Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. Tennyson.

post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger. You have not posted your books these ten years. Arbuthnot.

Made or done after the date assigned. Of these [predictions] some were postdate; cunningly made after the thing came to pass. Fuller.

broadest sense, the theory or practice of any of several groups of recent painters, or of these groups taken collectively, whose work and theories have in common a tendency to reaction against the scientific and naturalistic character of impressionism and neo- impressionism. In a strict sense the term post-impressionis…