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e of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation. Ure.

will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or motion; as, to equate payments; to equate lines of railroad for grades or curves; equated distances. Palgrave gives both scrolle and scrowe and equates both to F[rench] rolle. Skeat (Etymol. Dict. ). Equating for grades (Railroad Engin.), adding…

vision; equality; equilibrium. Again the golden day resumed its right, And ruled in just equation with the night. Rowe.

The great circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth's equator; -- so called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the equinoctial line. Equator of the sun or of a planet (Astron.), the great circ…

Of or pertaining to the equator; as, equatorial climates; also, pertaining to an equatorial instrument.

So as to have motion or direction parallel to the equator.

A written official recognition of a consul or commercial agent, issued by the government to which he is accredited, and authorizing him to exercise his powers in the place to which he is assigned.

The melting or dissolving of one thing into another.

Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc. Dryden. -- In*ad"e*quate*ly, adv. -- In*ad"e*quate*ness, n.

Want of exact correspondence. [Obs.] Puller.

Embodied in, or changed into, water. [Obs.] Cranmer.

The state of being inaquate. [Obs.] Bp. Gardiner.

An inequality.

A small tree of the genus Citrus (C. Japonica) growing in China and Japan; also, its small acid, orange-colored fruit used for preserves.

To melt; to become liquid. [Obs.] Woodward.

The process of separating, by heat, an easily fusible metal from one less fusible; eliquation.

The fruit of the Japanese medlar (Photinia Japonica). It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. Also, the tree itself.

ining to, or resembling, the art or style of the times of Louis XIV. of France; as, Louis quatorze architecture.

The act of becoming oblique; a turning to one side; obliquity; as, the obliquation of the eyes. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The angel fish (Squatina angelus