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The problems are primarily of this form: to find how the change in some variable quantity alters at each instant the value of a quantity dependent upon it. -- Exponential calculus, that part of algebra which treats of exponents. -- Imaginary calculus, a method of investigating the relations of real or imaginary quant…

A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the priest to warm his hands with.

The science, art, or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs, to promote strength and gracefulness; light gymnastics.

raction. "Infamouse calumnies." Motley. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Shak.

A projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which its acts.

Comradeship and loyalty.

A salt of camphoric acid.

he feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary; -- so called because the candles for the altar or other sacred uses are blessed on that day.

Furnished with cannon. [Poetic] "Gilbralter's cannoned steep." M. Arnold.

To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor. Fame in time to come canonize us. Shak.

A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor. "Golden canoniec and beds of state." Dryden.

imary signification, which is literally room for, as well as its employment, favars this; although it can not be dented that there are examples of its usage in an active sense. Sir W. Hamilton.

A salt of capric acid.

A salt of caproic acid.

A salt of caprylic acid.

By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not having the rank of captain.

cid (Chem.), an amido acid, NH2.CO2H, not existing in the free state, but occurring as a salt of ammonium in commercial ammonium carbonate; -- called also amido formic acid.

A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.

A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate.

A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.