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The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break.

; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal. "Hyaline spaces." Carpenter.

hydrometer consisting of a hollow ball of ivory or metal suspended by a treated from the center of a graduated quadrant, and held in a stream to measure the velocity of the water by the inclination given to the thread; a kind of current gauge.

The Acalephæ; one of the classes of coelenterates, including the Hydroidea, Discophora, and Siphonophora.

A prefix denoting that the element to the name of which it is prefixed enters with a low valence, or in a low state of oxidization, usually the lowest, into the compounds indicated; as, hyposulphurous acid.

ds in which it precedes another vowel), as in bunion, million, filial, Christian, etc. It enters into several digraphs, as in fail, field, seize, feign. friend; and with o often forms a proper diphtong, as in oil, join, coin.

A suffix, denoting that the element indicated enters into certain compounds with its highest valence, or with a valence relatively higher than in compounds where the name of the element ends in -ous; as, ferric, sulphuric. It is also used in the general sense of pertaining to; as, hydric, sodic, calcic.…

sculpture carved from a block of ice, often used for decorating restaurants. ice show an entertainment consisting of ice skaters performing figure-skating on a sheet of ice, usually in an arena, often accompanied by music. -- Ice sludge, bay ice broken small by the wind or waves; sludge. -- Ice spar (Min.), a variet…

ed as objects of thought. The whole mass of residua which have been accumulated . . . all enter now into the process of ideation. J. D. Morell.

equation (Alg.), an equation which is true for all values of the algebraic symbols which enter into it.

speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence. Carpenter.

A flowing or entering in; -- opposed to emanation. [R.] Good.

To dissapear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun. [R.]

To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice. Blackstone.

able of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrable shield. Highest woods impenetrable To star or sunlight. Milton.

hips of war; a press gang. -- Impress money, a sum of money paid, immediately upon their entering service, to men who have been impressed.

ity to reproduce one's species; want of age at which the marriage contract can be legally entered into.

of; as, the first in his family; the first regiment in the army. Nine in ten of those who enter the ministry. Swift.

Going; entering, as upon an office or a possession; as, an in- going tenant.

-- applied to that action which, in the case of muscular motion, commences in the nerve centers, and excites the muscles to contraction. Opposed to excito-motor.