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An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the earth, and each carrying a graduated circle, the one for measuring declination, and the other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed,…

, so that it remains firm; equipoise; as, to preserve the equilibrium of the body. Health consists in the equilibrium between those two powers. Arbuthnot.

Belonging to the Heath family, or resembling plants of that family; consisting of heats.

An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organic radical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic or inorganic; thus the natural fats are esters of glycerin and the fatty acids, oleic, etc.

purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission.

Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc. Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man. Pope.

ss of human actions; as, political or social ethics; medical ethics. The completeness and consistency of its morality is the peculiar praise of the ethics which the Bible has taught. I. Taylor.

A volatile, terpenelike oil extracted from the eucalyptus, and consisting largely of cymene.

Relating to, or consisting of, euchlorine; as, euchloric . Davy.

repared by Davy, evolved from potassium chlorate and hydrochloric acid. It is supposed to consist of chlorine tetroxide with some free chlorine.

A mineral of a brownish red color and vitreous luster, consisting chiefly of the silicates of iron, zirconia, and lime.

a mineral, consisting chiefly of the silicate of bismuth, found at Freiberg; -- called also culytine.

A rock occurring in the Alps, consisting of saussurite and smaragdite; -- sometimes called gabbro.

tructive distillation of various vegetable and animal substances; -- specifically, an oil consisting largely of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series. [Written also eupion.]

A genus of elegant, glassy sponges, consisting of interwoven siliceous fibers, and growing in the form of a cornucopia; -- called also Venus's flower-basket.

nd is said to be obtained from the urine of herbivorous animals when fed on the mango. It consists if a magnesium salt of euxanthic acid. Called also puri, purree, and Indian yellow.

uid into vapor, in order to obtain the fixed matter contained in it in a state of greater consistence.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.

issue which fills the interspaces between the costæ of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.

f breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to Ant: inspiration.