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ich all the planes of flotation touch when a vessel rolls or pitches; the envelope of all such planes.

Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair. Dickens.

is the first member. It always occurs combined, is very active chemically, and possesses such an avidity for most elements, and silicon especially, that it can neither be prepared nor kept in glass vessels. If set free it immediately attacks the containing material, so that it was not isolated until 1886. It is a pung…

To excite; to animate; to stir. Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition. South.

A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n.

A flyaway person or thing. "Truth is such a flyaway." Emerson.

of townships or villages; a community; a tribe. [Obs.] The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war. J. R. Green.

Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion; as, a foolish act.

A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe; esp., such a valve in a steam-engine condenser opening to the air pump.

The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.

ount of; to regard. Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear. Shak. I force not of such fooleries. Camden.

t of forcing; compulsion. [Obs.] It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster.

Superiority; advantage; start; precedence. And, but for ceremony, such a wretch . . . Had the forehand and vantage of a king. Shak.

jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham. Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater luster, either to foreigners or subjects. Swift.

, as, a signature, or a signed document. That paltry story is untrue, And forged to cheat such gulls as you. Hudibras. Forged certificates of his . . . moral character. Macaulay.

ame for a piece of hammered iron or steel. There are very few yards in the world at which such forgings could be turned out. London Times.

eservation; to resign. To them that list the world's gay shows I leave, And to great ones such folly do forgive. Spenser.

Form without substance. Such [books] as are mere pieces of formality, so that if you look on them, you look though them. Fuller.

Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.

s; precocity; as, the forwardnessof spring or of corn; the forwardness of a pupil. He had such a dexterous proclivity, as his teachers were fain to restrain his forwardness. Sir H. Wotton.