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ir own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible modes of existence in the universe. J. S. Mill.

A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure. In the preceding line Ulysses speaks of Nausicaa. Broome.

ble connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very generally in locomotives and marine engines.

Versed in, or acquainted with, literature; occupied with literature as a profession; connected with literature or with men of letters; as, a literary man. In the literary as well as fashionable world. Mason. Literary property. (a) Property which consists in written or printed compositions. (b) The exclusive right of pu…

One versed in liturgiology.

e polar equation is r2th = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line.

Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part. Full loth were him to curse for his tithes. Chaucer . Why, then, though loath, yet must I be content. Shak.

m for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.

Skilled in logic; versed in the art of thinking and reasoning; as, he is a logical thinker. Addison.

An elongated pod, consisting, like the legume, of two valves, but divided transversely into small cells, each containing a single seed.

in length; in the direction of the length; running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse; as, the longitudinal diameter of a body. Cheyne.

A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural. 4. pl.

he contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected. The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or demons, are made to act in a poem. Pope.

A constrictor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.

The great world; that part of the universe which is exterior to man; -- contrasted with microcosm, or man. See Microcosm.

One versed in the science of magnetism; a magnetist.

One versed in magnetism.

To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify. [Archaic] Chaucer. Tennyson. To solace him some time, as I do when I make. P. Plowman. To make as if, or To make as though, to pretend that; to make show that; to make believe (see under Make, v. t.). Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled…

One who writes verses; a poet. [Obs.]

One versed in the science of malacology.