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ich contains one half of its volume of alcohol, the alcohol when at a temperature of 60º Fahrenheit being of specific gravity 0.7939 referred to water at its maximum density as unity. Proof spirit has at 60º Fahrenheit a specific gravity of 0.93353, 100 parts by volume of the same consisting of 50 parts of absolute alc…

A book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of Ahijah. 2 Chron. ix. 29.

ired or instructed by God to speak in his name, or announce future events, as, Moses, Elijah, etc.

The mercy seat; -- so called because a symbol of the propitiated Jehovah. Bp. Pearson.

ority of votes; especially, one adopted by vote of the Athenian people; a statute. J. P. Mahaffy.

A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official. [Written also pandit.] [India]

d from the ceiling. It is kept in motion by pulling a cord. [Hindostan] [Written also punkah.] Malcom.

e or hit. -- Punto reverso Etym: [It. riverso reverse], a backhanded stroke. Halliwell. "Ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverso!" Shak.

its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house. The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth. Gen. xxv. 10.

The pentagonal dodecahedron, a common form of pyrite.

A niobate of calcium, cerium, and other bases, occurring usually in octahedrons of a yellowish or brownish color and resinous luster; -- so called from its becoming grass-green on being subjected to heat under the blowpipe.

thren, like unto thee. Deut. xviii. 18. God vouchsafes to raise another world From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget. Milton.

Same as Rajah.

A fluoride of alumina and soda occurring with the Greenland cryolite in octahedral crystals.

n which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification. Mahan.

especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.

A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah. [Written also ranee.] [India]

ribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value. Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Rom. iv. 9. Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. Hawthorne.

on whose faces are equal regular polygons. There are five regular polyhedrons, -- the tetrahedron, the hexahedron, or cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedron. -- Regular sales (Stock Exchange), sales of stock deliverable on the day after the transaction. -- Regular troops, troops of a standing or…

r parties for the purpose of opposing the extension of slavery, and in 1860 it elected Abraham Lincoln president.