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rb from Asia (Molucella lævis), having a curious cup-shaped calyx. -- Palm cabbage, the terminal bud of a cabbage palm, used as food. -- Palm cat (Zoöl.), the common paradoxure. -- Palm crab (Zoöl.), the purse crab. -- Palm oil, a vegetable oil, obtained from the fruit of several species of palms, as the African oi…

An instrument for measuring angles for determining elevations, distances, etc.

The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane; also, the fundamental axial ratio for a given species.

a change from the right form, as in the formation of a word from another by a change of termination, gender, etc. Max Müller.

Which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them. Shak.

rvention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis.

The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.

. "Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to define them." Jer. Taylor. (b) To determine concerning; to give judgment or sentence upon. "We may not pass upon his life." Shak. -- To pass off, to go away; to cease; to disappear; as, an agitation passes off. -- To pass over, to go from one side or end to the oth…

; an investigator in pathology; as, the pathologist of a hospital, whose duty it is to determine the causes of the diseases.

A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. "Run your beard into a peak." Beau. & Fl.

outh organs of arachnids. In some they are leglike, but in others, as the scorpion, they terminate in a claw.

Firmly determined; unawed. [Poetic] Shak. Peremptory challenge (Law) See under Challenge. -- Peremptory mandamus, a final and absolute mandamus. -- Peremptory plea, a plea by a defendant tending to impeach the plaintiff's right of action; a plea in bar.

An instrument for determining the extent and shape of the field of vision.

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the…

The arrangement of any determinate number of things, as units, objects, letters, etc., in all possible orders, one after the other; -- called also alternation. Cf. Combination, n., 4.

gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives. Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. Acts xxvi. 28. We will persuade him, be it possible. Shak.

ons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination. For thou hast all the arts of fine persuasion. Otway.

dered, the system is univariant, that is, the fixing of one condition, as temperature, determines the others.

A method of surveying or map making by photography, used also in determining the height and motions of clouds, sea waves, and the like.

An instrument for determining the sensibility of the plates employed in photographic processes to luminous rays.