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"The employment of subjective and objective mechanical means to determine the accomodative and refractive states of the eye and the scope of its function in general."

An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, e…

expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed. "Well ought us work." Chaucer. To speak of this as it ought, would ask a volume. Milton. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things Luke xxiv. 26.

To commit outrage upon; to subject to outrage; to treat with violence or excessive abuse. Base and insolent minds outrage men when they have hope of doing it without a return. Atterbury. This interview outrages all decency. Broome.

great fear. The king was present in person to overlook the magistrates, and overawe these subjects with the terror of his sword. Spenser.

to subject (a plate or film) too long to the developing process.

to subject (a plate or film) too long to the actinic action of the light used in producing a picture. -- O`ver*ex*po"sure (#), n.

ss. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.

To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject.

) in return or compensation for something received; to be indebted in the sum of; as, the subject owes allegiance; the fortunate owe assistance to the unfortunate. The one ought five hundred pence, and the other fifty. Bible (1551). A son owes help and honor to his father. Holyday.

To combine with oxygen, or subject to the action of oxygen, or of an oxidizing agent. Specifically:

The act or process of producing, or of subjecting to the action of, ozone.

ften with a paper cover, but not bound; a short essay or written discussion, usually on a subject of current interest.

A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions. [Obs.] Holinshed.

or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character

r is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by way of burlesque; travesty. The lively parody which he wrote . . . on Dryden's "Hind and Panther" was received with great applause. Macaulay.

denoting the name of a thing; the verb is a part of speech which asserts something of the subject of a sentence. -- Part owner (Law), one of several owners or tenants in common. See Joint tenant, under Joint. -- Part singing, singing in which two or more of the harmonic parts are taken. -- Part song, a song in two o…

ing a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject; as, a particular proposition; -- opposed to universal: e. g. (particular affirmative) Some men are wise; (particular negative) Some men are not wise. Particular average. See under Average. -- Particular Baptist, one of a…

A score. Partition of numbers (Math.), the resolution of integers into parts subject to given conditions. Brande & C.

The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action. A body at rest affords us no idea of any active power to move, and, when set is motion, it is rather a passion than an action in it. Locke.