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Influenced in its contraction by heat or cold; -- said of a muscle.

The property possessed by protoplasm of moving under the influence of heat.

e or art developed in Alexandria among the Neoplatonists, and supposed to enable man to influence the will of the gods by means of purification and other sacramental rites. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England.

ney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. Gwilt.

re than twenty- four hours. It is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of the earth is accompanied by a high tide u…

To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine. Not tied to rules of policy, you find Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind. Dryden.

Being under the influence of strong drink; rendered weak or foolish by liquor, but not absolutely or completely drunk; fuddled; intoxicated.

Discourse; fluency of speech or expression. Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. L. Estrange.

To predominate; as, topping passions. "Influenced by topping uneasiness." Locke.

Of or pertaining to a torpedo; resembling a torpedo; exerting a benumbing influence; stupefying; dull; torpid. Fishy were his eyes; torpedinous was his manner. De Quincey.

To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly. " No decree of mine, . . . [to] touch with lightest moment of impulse his free will," Milton.

A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent.

trition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.

ing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.

The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue; a funnel. And one great chimney, whose long tunnel thence The smoke forth threw. Spenser.

around one's finger, to have complete control of the will and actions of; to be able to influence at pleasure. -- To turn aside, to avert. -- To turn away. (a) To dismiss from service; to discard; as, to turn away a servant. (b) To avert; as, to turn away wrath or evil. -- To turn back. (a) To give back; to return.…

A yellow or brown amorphous substance obtained as a sublimation product in the flues of smelting furnaces of zinc, and consisting of a crude zinc oxide.

To handle lightly; -- said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure. A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service. Addison.

The euphonic modification of a root vowel sound by the influence of a, u, or especially i, in the syllable which formerly followed.