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An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.

Somewhat dull; uninteresting; tiresome. "A series of dullish verses." Prof. Wilson.

To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.

To break; to disperse. [R.] Clarendon.

bterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock. Earthquake alarm, a bell signal constructed to operate on the theory that a few seconds before the occurrence…

is precisely that of a crank having the same throw. Back eccentric, the eccentric that reverses or backs the valve gear and the engine. -- Fore eccentric, the eccentric that imparts a forward motion to the valve gear and the engine.

he distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis.

One versed in ecclesiology.

et organ pipes inclosed in a box so as to produce a soft, distant effect; -- generally superseded by the swell. -- Echo stop (Mus.), a stop upon a harpsichord contrived for producing the soft effect of distant sound. -- To applaud to the echo, to give loud and continuous applause. M. Arnold. I would applaud thee to t…

extensively used by Eddy in his famous meteorological experiments. It is now generally superseded by the box kite.

enness; intenseness of desire. The full edge of our indignation. Sir W. Scott. Death and persecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices. Jer. Taylor.

ation to Protestants. Its revocation by Louis XIV. (A. D. 1685) was followed by terrible persecutions and the expatriation of thousands of French Protestants.

One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.

An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.

One versed in electro-biology.

ich makes it consist in the rapid alternation of transient electric currents moving transversely to the direction of the ray.

ttery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; - - the converse or correlative of electro-negative.

ires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.

a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary. Faraday.

Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.