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A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone.…

n its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances. Atomic weight, 120. Symbol, Sb.

Old age. [Obs.] It not your voice broken . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity Shak.

ng from west to east; then they stood before the altar, and sang the epode, which was the last part of the song. Abp. Potter.

r standing. [Colloq.] All the men belonged exclusively to the mechanical and shopkeeping classes, and there was not a single banker or anybody in the list. Lond. Sat. Rev.

The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture.

two such foci; and it is by taking advantage of this fact that the best aplanatic object glasses of microscopes are constructed.

ered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament.

To cut off or drop; as, to apocopate a word, or the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class.

After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.

tive; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person. Yet God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied. Milton.

ea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders.

An artificial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.

One of the classes of Arthropoda. See Illustration in Appendix.

ing the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

Applied to a gastrula when the blastorope does not entirely up.

A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.

celsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers. [Obs.] Johnson.