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s or quantities of motion in bodies. Berkley. Touch, with lightest moment of impulse, His free will. Milton.

A genus of minute flagellate Infusoria of which there are many species, both free and attached. See Illust. under Monad.

districts of Rome, Italy), and first fully described by her in 1909. Leading features are freedom for physical activity (no stationary desks and chairs), informal and individual instruction, the very early development of writing, and an extended sensory and motor training (with special emphasis on vision, touch, percep…

ntiment, when tried by the standard of right. The morality of an action is founded in the freedom of that principle, by virtue of which it is in the agent's power, having all things ready and requisite to the performance of an action, either to perform or not perform it. South.

eres. Chaucer. So mote it be, so be it; amen; -- a phrase in some rituals, as that of the Freemasons.

ks and gelatin. Mousse differs from ice cream in being beaten before -- not during -- the freezing process.

Freedom; security; immunity. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling; as, a version near to the original.

Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy. If you were to see her, you would wonder what poor body it was that was so surprisingly neat and clean. Law.

Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; -- opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.

ine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives; deteminism. M. Arnold.

The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism. Of necessity, by necessary consequence; by compulsion, or irresistible power; perforce.

In ancient Sparta, one of those Helots who were freed by the state in reward for military service. Milford.

To innovate; to coin or introduce new words. Freely as we of the nineteenth century neoterize. fized. Hall.

Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat; as, net wine, etc. [R.]

s, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume. It is chemically very inert in the free state, and as such is incapable of supporting life (hence the name azote still used by French chemists); but it forms many important compounds, as ammonia, nitric acid, the cyanides, etc, and is a constituent of all organized…

A hypothetical nitro derivative of quinol or hydroquinone, not known in the free state, but forming a well defined series of derivatives.

c compounds. Nitrous acid (Chem.), a hypothetical acid of nitrogen HNO2, not known in the free state, but forming a well known series of salts, viz., the nitrites. -- Nitrous oxide. See Laughing gas.

nal profession. Hooker. She [the Anglican church] has the note of possession, the note of freedom from party titles,the note of life -- a tough life and a vigorous. J. H. Newman. What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all ! Mrs. Humphry Ward.

t which obstructs or impedes; an obstacle; an impediment; a hindrance. A popular assembly free from obstruction. Swift.