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devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.

The science of light; -- a general term sometimes employed when optics is restricted to light as a producing vision. Knight.

An instrument for determining the sensibility of the plates employed in photographic processes to luminous rays.

One who practices, or one who employs, photolithography.

Anything employed for the observation of light or luminous effects.

A short, pithy expression; especially, one which is often employed; a peculiar or idiomatic turn of speech; as, to err is human.

d (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, C6H4.(CO2H)2, analogous to benzoic acid, and employed in the brilliant dyestuffs called the phthaleins.

a nation; the body is the physical part of man. Labor, in the physical world, is . . . employed in putting objects in motion. J. S. Mill. A society sunk in ignorance, and ruled by mere physical force. Macaulay.

or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance. [Cant]

The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.

A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.

job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed. The reaping was piecework, at so much per acre. R. Jefferies.

m: [perhaps a corruption of business English], an extraordinary and grotesque dialect, employed in the commercial cities of China, as the medium of communication between foreign merchants and the Chinese. Its base is English, with a mixture of Portuguese and Hindoostanee. Johnson's Cyc. -- Pigeon grass (Bot.), a kind…

One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman. Dryden.

An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.

A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally, spynace or spyne.

A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.

The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a rai…

A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum.

An alloy of German silver containing tungsten; -- used for forming electrical resistance coils and standards.