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Fertilization of two ova, at the same menstruation, by two different acts of coition.

To set edgewise, as a stone; that is, to set it in a position different from that which it had in the quarry. It . . . has something of a grain parallel with the horizon, and therefore should not be surbedded. Gilbert White.

A name given to the outer garment of either sex at different epochs of the Middle Ages.

are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds.

That relation which exists between different persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another pe…

A collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic; -- so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks.

A representation, in the same picture, of two or events which occured at different times.

To cause to agree in time; as, to synchronize the movements of different machines; to synchronize clocks.

Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion. Smart.

An officer of government, invested with different powers in different countries; a magistrate.

rds sufficiently alike in general signification to be liable to be confounded, but yet so different in special definition as to require to be distinguished. G. P. Marsh.

-- the opposite of Ant: analysis. Analysis and synthesis, though commonly treated as two different methods, are, if properly understood, only the two necessary parts of the same method. Each is the relative and correlative of the other. Sir W. Hamilton.

Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration. Systematic theology. See under Theology.

The coupling together of different feet; as, in Greek verse, an iambic syzygy.

A union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose his claim. Bouvier.

sense of touch, or pressure sense. See Touch. The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on different parts of the skin; it is geatest on the forehead, temples and back of the forearm. H. N. Martin.

f silk, having usually the wavy luster called watering. The term has also been applied to different kinds of silk goods, from the 16th century to modern times. Lined with taffeta and with sendal. Chaucer.

e parable of the talents (Matt. xxv. 14- 30). He is chiefly to be considered in his three different talents, as a critic, a satirist, and a writer of odes. Dryden. His talents, his accomplishments, his graceful manners, made him generally popular. Macaulay.

reeably; a conversationist. There probably were never four talkers more admirable in four different ways than Johnson, Burke, Beauclerk, and Garrick. Macaulay.

hese pieces being capable of combination in various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures. It is now often used in primary schools as a means of instruction.