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To be elated; to rise arrogantly. Your equal mind yet swells not into state. Dryden.

Having an equal number of parts in the successive circles of floral organs; -- said of flowers.

Equality in the number of parts of the successive circles in a flower.

Having a space equal to two diameters or four modules between two columns; -- said of a portico or building. See Intercolumniation. -- n.

Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was £243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180. Rowing vessel whose burden does not exceed five hundred talents. Jowett (T…

Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates.

Business; employment; undertaking; labor. His mental powers were equal to greater tasks. Atterbury. To take to task. See under Take.

g a predominance of one of these fluids and a corresponding influence on the temperament. Equal temperament (Mus.), that in which the variations from mathematically true pitch are distributed among all the keys alike. -- Unequal temperament (Mus.), that in which the variations are thrown into the keys least used.…

f any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight.

Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.

A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.

er coin among the ancient Greeks, of the value of four drachms. The Attic tetradrachm was equal to 3s. 3d. sterling, or about 76 cents.

A solid in the isometric system, bounded by twenty-four equal triangular faces, four corresponding to each face of the cube.

h he has said is true; those in the basket are good apples. The early fame of Gratian was equal to that of the most celebrated princes. Gibbon.

Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day. Third estate. (a) In England, the commons, or the commonalty, who are represented in Parliament by the House of Commons. (b) In France, the tiers état. See Tiers état. Third order (R. C. Ch.), an order attached t…

Constituting or being one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Constituting or being one of thirty equal parts into which anything is divided.

Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided. Thirty-second note (Mus.), the thirty-second part of a whole note; a demi-semiquaver.

Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth.

ank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.