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arms the modern projectile, having a soft core and harder jacket, is subjected to compression throughout the entire cylindrical part.

Joint attestation; proof. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

mpelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force. If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. Shak. With what complusion and laborious flight We sunk thus low. Milton.

A pricking; stimulation. [Obs.] That acid piecering spirit which, with such activity and compunction, invadeth the brains and nostrils. Sir T. Browne.

Without compunction.

confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.

The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon.

act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical. Of conation, in other words, of desire and will. J. S. Mill.

An arch or vault.

ries or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession. The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenation of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's will. South. A concatenation of explosions. W. Irving.

The act of making concave.

ting; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration. Concentration of the lunar beams. Boyle. Intense concetration of thought. Sir J. Herschel.

The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life. I will greaty multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. Gen. iii. 16.

Pertaining to conception.

A conceptualist.

Strife; contention. [Obs.] Bailey.

Act of concerting; adjustment. [R.] Young.

, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous. By mutual concession the business was adjusted. Hallam.

The beneficiary of a concession or grant.

Of or pertaining to a concession. -- n.; pl. -ries.