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The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.

system of law (called ganancial system) which controls the title and disposition of the property acquired during marriage by the husband or wife.

of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist. Totten. Gangway ladder, a ladder rigged on the side of a vessel at the gangway. -- To bring to the gangway, to punish (a seaman) by flogging him at the gangway.

arnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money.

The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids. Coxe.

Goods; property; household stuff. Chaucer. Homely gear and common ware. Robynson (More's Utopia)

ng in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.

m every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant stat…

That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space.

A voluntary transfer of real or personal property, without any consideration. It can be perfected only by deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual delivery of possession. Bouvier. Burrill. Gift rope (Naut), a rope extended to a boat for towing it; a guest rope.

To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy. What shall a man give in exchange for his soul Matt. xvi. 26.

Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep.

Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc.

k liquid. It is a hydroxyl derivative of propionic acid, and has both acid and alcoholic properties.

Any one of the large class of diacid alcohols, of which glycol proper is the type.

- whence its name. It is a sirupy, or white crystalline, substance, HO.CH2.CO2H, has the properties both of an alcohol and an acid, and is a type of the hydroxy acids; -- called also hydroxyacetic acid.

nging to the class of oximes; also, any one of a group of substances resembling glyoxime proper, and of which it is a type. See Oxime.

(c) To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune. (d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang]

) Promptly; punctually; opportunely; not too soon nor too late. (b) (Mus.) Correctly; in proper time. -- To hold good, to remain true or valid; to be operative; to remain in force or effect; as, his promise holds good; the condition still holds good. -- To make good, to fulfill; to establish; to maintain; to supply (…

loq.] -- Grab game, a theft committed by grabbing or snatching a purse or other piece of property. [Colloq.]