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A hymn, or other selection, sung during a church procession; as, the processional was the 202d hymn.

e demanding direct primaries, preferential primaries for presidential nominations, direct election of United States senators, women's suffrage, and recall of judicial decisions in certain cases.

"The ticket or list of candidates at elections, presented to the people for their votes." [Rhode Island] Bartlett.

Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to natural selection.

y endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually expensive endowed schools which give a liberal modern education or prepare pupils for the universities. Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Winchester are of this class.

by drowning, breathing poisonous gases, or the like, or of one who has been stunned by an electrical shock.

A simple device, resembling a button in form, so arranged that pushing it closes an electric circuit, as of an electric bell.

Electricity. [R.]

Acting by the agency of heat and magnetism; as, a pyromagnetic machine for producing electric currents.

Fourfold; folded or doubled twice. Quadruplex system (Electric Telegraph), a system by which four messages, two in each direction, may be sent simultaneously over the wire.

Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked.

The electric catfish. [Written also raasch.]

A substance or device that has its conductivity altered in some way by electric waves, as a coherer.

Telegraphy using the radiant energy of electrical (Hertzian) waves; wireless telegraphy; -- the term adopted for use by the Radiotelegraphic Convention of 1912.

tgen ray ( (Phys.), a kind of ray generated in a very highly exhausted vacuum tube by the electrical discharge. It is capable of passing through many bodies opaque to light, and producing photographic and fluorescent effects by which means pictures showing the internal structure of opaque objects are made, called radio…

s measured in ohms. The reactance of a circuit is equal to the component of the impressed electro-motive force at right angles to the current divided by the current, that is, the component of the impedance due to the self-inductance or capacity of the circuit.

other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change in one or more of these agents, with the production of new compounds or the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction, Flame reaction, under Blowpipe, and Flame.…

A book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book.

A lecture or prelection; public recital. The Jews had their weekly readings of the law. Hooker.

The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at Oxford.