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n anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.

Comeliness. Baret.

rally in beetroot molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.

To deviate or incline from an angle of 90 Their houses are very ill built, the walls bevel. Swift.

The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.

Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.

in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line. Being ignorant that there is a concealed bias within the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away. Sir W. Scott.

Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.

Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.

measuring minute distances or angles by means of two very minute threads (usually spider lines), one of which, at least, is movable; -- more commonly called a filar micrometer.

A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.

A name applied to the amorphous or crystalline mass obtained from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids.

Applied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).

and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See Mica.

Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction. Elected without reference to birth, but solely for qualifications. Prescott.

Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth. Most part of this noble lineage carried upon their body for a natural birthmark, . . . a snake. Sir T. North.

One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle.

The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.

One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude.

A line that touches a curve in two points.