Search the Dictionary

s analogous to, or corresponds with, some other thing. The vexatious tyranny of the individual despot meets its analogue in the insolent tyranny of the many. I. Taylor.

A gradual progression from one type to another, generally ascending. Huxley.

Union of both sexes in one individual; hermaphroditism.

sed to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.

A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.

One of the individual members of a compound ascidian. See Ascidioidea.

A collection of individuals, or of individuals, or of particular things; as, a political assemblage; an assemblage of ideas.

To meet or come together, as a number of individuals; to convene; to congregate. Dryden. The Parliament assembled in November. W. Massey.

One who assembles a number of individuals; also, one of a number assembled.

To fix or determine the rate or amount of. This sum is assessed and raised upon individuals by commissioners in the act. Blackstone.

The life principle, soul, or individual essence.

Producing only asexual individuals, as the eggs of certain annelids.

f the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. [In this sense, written also autocrasy.] Dunglison.

, in consequence of some fortuitous or unavoidable accident; and it is borne by the individual owners of the articles damaged, or by their insurers. -- Petty averages are sundry small charges, which occur regularly, and are necessarily defrayed by the master in the usual course of a voyage; such as port charges, commo…

f letter B is Roman, from Greek B (Beta), of Semitic origin. The small b was formed by gradual change from the capital B.

To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.

A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee. [U. S.] The cellar . . . was dug by a bee in a single day. S. G. Goodrich.

eeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.

ls payable (pl.), the outstanding unpaid notes or acceptances made and issued by an individual or firm. -- Bills receivable (pl.), the unpaid promissory notes or acceptances held by an individual or firm. McElrath. -- A true bill, a bill of indictment sanctioned by a grand jury.