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- said of things. [Obs.] From these laws may be deduced the rules of the congresses and reflections of two bodies. Cheyne.

The act of conjugating a verb or giving in order its various parts and inflections.

Given to consideration or to sober reflection; regardful of consequences or circumstances; circumspect; careful; esp. careful of the rights, claims, and feelings of other. Of dauntless courage and considerate pride. Milton. considerate, and careful of his people. Dryden. The wisest and most considerate men in the world…

The result of delibration, or of attention and examonation; matured opinion; a reflection; as, considerations on the choice of a profession.

One who considers; a man of reflection; a thinker. Milton.

t; to soothe. And empty heads console with empty sound. Pope. I am much consoled by the reflection that the religion of Christ has been attacked in vain by all the wits and philosophers, and its triumph has been complete. P. Henry.

anometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation. Deadbeat escapement. See under Escapement.

Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.

Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.

Causing deflection. Deflective forces, forces that cause a body to deviate from its course.

See Deflection.

A bending or turning aside; deflection. Bailey.

xamining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection. Choosing the fairest way with a calm deliberation. W. Montagu.

To break or separate into parts; to deflect, or decompose by deflection, a

The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars. Remarked by Grimaldi (1665), and referred by him to a property of light which he calle…

sists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian.

An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse.

at pert of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection.

An opinion or notion formed without much reflection; caprice; whim; impression. I have always had a fancy that learning might be made a play and recreation to children. Locke.

hich to effect insurance against fire. -- Fire opal, a variety of opal giving firelike reflections. -- Fire ordeal, an ancient mode of trial, in which the test was the ability of the accused to handle or tread upon red-hot irons. Abbot. -- Fire pan, a pan for holding or conveying fire, especially the receptacle for…