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without those numberless waves or curls which usually arise from the sand holes. Sir I. Newton.

ining power of an optical instrument. Rings . . . very distinct and well defined. Sir I. Newton.

d in size or proportion; difform leaves. The unequal refractions of difform rays. Sir I. Newton.

e colors should be diluted and weakened by the mixture of any adventitious light. Sir I. Newton.

f parts, made either by bubbles or by shaking the glass, the whole mercury falls. Sir I. Newton.

able. Cudworth. Such things as are not dissolvable by the moisture of the tongue. Sir I. Newton.

ry other with a force . . . inversely proportioned to the square of the distance. Sir I. Newton.

A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils. The pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Longfellow.

The common newt; -- called also asker, eft, evat, and ewt.

A salamander, esp. the European smooth newt (Triton punctatus).

fracted light, at its very first emergence . . . is compounded of various colors. Sir I. Newton. When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung. H. Brooke.

time; issue; as, the emission was mostly blood. Emission theory (Physics), the theory of Newton, regarding light as consisting of emitted particles or corpuscles. See Corpuscular theory, under Corpuscular.

boy enters on his tenth year; to enter upon a task; lead enters into the composition of pewter.

The common newt or eft. In America often applied to several species of aquatic salamanders. [Written also evat.]

ral planes of cleavage, like crystals. This crystal is a pellucid, fissile stone. Sir I. Newton.

Coherence of parts. Sir I. Newton.

exibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light. Sir I. Newton. All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. Macaulay.

A fluid state. [Obs.] Sir I. Newton.

A method of analysis developed by Newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change. Its results are the same as those of the differential and integral calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logica…

ernicus generalized the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air. W. Nicholson.