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A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.

The condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point. The convergence or divergence of the rays falling on the pupil. Berkeley.

The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a curcular form. -Absolute curvature. See under Absolute. -- Angle of curvature (Geom.), one that expresses the…

t not into the opposing color. Red and pure white are more common among flowers of cyanic tendency than in those of the other class.

lorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach- blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. It is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and s…

Tendency to bring damnation. "The damningness of them [sins]." Hammond.

f health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay. Perhaps my God, though he be far before,…

Tendency to mislead or deceive. "The deceitfulness of riches." Matt. xiii. 22.

The power or habit of deceiving; tendency or aptness to deceive.

Able to decide or determine; having a tendency to decide. [R.]

A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc. Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts To base declension. Shak.

A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion. Their fathers lived in the decline of literature. Swift.…

Very; with a tendency to darkness of color. The deeply red juice of buckthorn berries. Boyle.

The act of deliquescing or liquefying; process by which anything deliquesces; tendency to melt.

A straight wind without apparent cyclonic tendency, usually accompanied with rain and often destructive, common in the prairie regions of the United States.

Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion. Remissness can by no means consist with a constant determination of the will . . . to the greatest apparent good. Locke.

The tendency of organs (as roots) of plants to assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the center of the earth.

A tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light.

The supposed act or tendency in being of every kind, whether organic or inorganic, to assume or produce a more complex structure or functions.

Tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium.