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See Archil.

The state of oscillating; a seesaw kind of motion. [R.]

r algæ, the threads of which have an automatic swaying or crawling motion. Called also Oscillatoria.

ctuating manner; to change repeatedly, back and forth. The amount of superior families oscillates rather than changes, that is, it fluctuates within fixed limits. Dc Quincey.

That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale.

A current alternating in direction.

The act of oscillating; a swinging or moving backward and forward, like a pendulum; vibration.

Tending to oscillate; vibratory. [R.] I. Taylor.

Any device for producing electric oscillations; esp., an apparatus for generating electric waves in a system of wireless telegraphy.

Same as Oscillaria.

Moving, or characterized by motion, backward and forward like a pendulum; swinging; oscillating; vibratory; as, oscillatory motion.

An autographic record made by an oscillograph.

paratus for recording or indicating alternating-current wave forms or other electrical oscillations, usually consisting of a galvanometer with strong field, in which the mass of the moving part is very small and frequency of vibration very high. -- Os`cil*lo*graph"ic (#), a.

An instrument for measuring the angle through which a ship rolls or pitches at sea.

An instrument for showing visually the changes in a varying current; an oscillograph.

To exceed in villainy.

To fill to excess; to surcharge.

A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, obtained indirectly by the action of cyanogen on aniline, and regarded as an anilide of oxamic acid; -- called also phenyl oxamide.

An under bed or mattress of straw. [Written also palliasse.]

A thin leaf of metal, as for use in gilding or enameling, or to show through a translucent medium.