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a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.

d effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects. Ambition is no exact calculator. Burke.

d the casting voice." B. Trumbull. -- Casting weight, a weight that turns a balance when exactly poised.

To fill up, as a cavity. "The woodwork . . . exactly chocketh into joints." Fuller.

That learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided. Locke. THe most exact chronologers tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in December. John Knox.

Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact; strict; as, a close translation. Locke.

Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.

To correspond exactly; to agree; to concur; as, our aims coincide. The rules of right jugdment and of good ratiocination often coincide with each other. Watts.

Exact correspondence in nature, character, result, circumstances, etc.; concurrence; agreement. The very concurrence and coincidence of ao many evidences . . . carries a great weight. Sir M. Hale. Those who discourse . . . of the nature of truth . . . affirm a perfect coincidence between truth and goodness. South.…

tional weight, usually referred to hydrogen as a standard, and for each element fixed and exact, by which an element unites with another to form a distinct compound. The combining weights either are identical with, or are multiples or multiples of, the atomic weight. See Atomic weight, under Atomic, a.…

Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure. -- Com*men"su*ra*ble*ness, n. Commensurable numbers or quantities (Math.), those that can be exactly expressed by some common unit; thus a foot and yard are commensurable, since both can be expressed in terms of an inc…

Commixture; mingling. [R.] An exact commixtion of the ingredients. Boyle.

To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort. [R.] Commissions, which compel from each The sixth part of his substance. Shak.

tments of different classes. [Eng.] -- Composite number (Math.), one which can be divided exactly by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or 3.prime number. -- Composite photograph or portrait, one made by a combination, or blending, of several distinct photographs. F. Galton. -- Composite sailing (Naut.), a combinati…

ess; mutual adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse. [R.] An exact concinnity and eveness of fancy. Howell.

Agreeing. Concurring figure (Geom.), one which, being laid on another, exactly meets every part of it, or one which correspondends with another in all its parts.

Nearly, but not exactly, conical. Lindley.

constitution had begun to exist in times when statesmen were not much accustomed to frame exact definitions. Macaulay.

etters, etc., in a copying press. -- Copying press, a machine for taking by pressure, an exact copy of letters, etc., written in copying ink.

In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.