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A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form.

e; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to Ant: passive, that receives; as, certain active principles; the powers of the mind.

A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their invoice, - - in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent.

Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.

Quenching thirst, as certain fruits.

Formerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff.

An instrument for ascertaining the weight or density of air and gases.

The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation.

A material object (vaguely designated). A certain affair of fine red cloth much worn and faded. Hawthorne.

To assess or reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum. Amercements . . . were affeered by the judges. Blackstone.

The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.

Having a certain age; at the age of; having lived; as, a man aged forty years.

(Zoöl.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.

To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. Blackstone.

Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer. Mozley & W.

The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate. Mozley & W.

fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water is coagulated by heat ad by certain chemical reagents. Acid albumin, a modification of albumin produced by the action of dilute acids. It is not coagulated by heat. -- Alkali albumin, albumin as modified by the action of alkaline substances; -- called also…

An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid.

s analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.

The process or method of ascertaining the proportion of pure alcohol which spirituous liquors contain.