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athizing. Far wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind. Goldsmith.

One engaged with others at a banquet or merrymaking. Sydney Smith.

A dictionary of synonyms. C. J. Smith.

tony; specif., designating, or pert. to, a system of wireless telegraphy in which the transmitting and receiving apparatus are in syntony with, and only with, one another. -- Syn*ton"ic*al (#), a. --Syn*ton"ic*al*ly, adv.

the profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm. A. Smith.

ide, or the proud. "I never attempted to be impudent yet, that I was not taken down." Goldsmith. (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion. (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a house or a scaffold. (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's words at the time he utters them. -- To take ef…

thorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. Goldsmith.

riting lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.

A kind of clay for making melting pots. Percy Smith.

"He taught his disciples." Mark ix. 31. The village master taught his little school. Goldsmith.

A tinsmith's stake, or small anvil.

A message transmitted and recorded by a teleautograph.

A facsimile telegraph for reproducing writing, pictures, maps, etc. In the transmitter the motions of the pencil are communicated by levers to two rotary shafts, by which variations in current are produced in two separate circuits. In the receiver these variations are utilized by electromagnetic devices and levers to m…

An instrument for telegraphically transmitting and receiving handwritten messages, as photographically by a beam of light from a mirror.

sible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.

An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, ralay, equilibrator, and an induction coil the sparks from which perforate a paper with tiny…

Art or process of electrically transmitting and reproducing photographic or other pictures at a distance by methods similar to those used in electric telegraphy.

Relating to a system for transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.

hes; inclosed in a temple. I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills. S. F. Smith.

er. The temples were sunk, her forehead was tense, and a fatal paleness was upon her. Goldsmith. -- Tense"ly, adv. -- Tense"ness, n.