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An ergraving or cutting tool; a burin.

d hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar.

Of or pert. to hysteresis. -- Hysteretic constant, the hysteretic loss in ergs per cubic centimeter per cycle.

A unit of work which is equal to 107 units of work in the C. G. S. system of units (ergs), and is practically equivalent to the energy expended in one second by an electric current of one ampere in a resistance of one ohm. One joule is approximately equal to 0.738 foot pounds. Joule's equivalent. See under Equivalent,…

A unit of work equal to one thousand ergs.

A million ergs; a megerg.

One of the larger measures of work, amounting to one million ergs; -- called also megalerg.

To gaze; to overlook. [Poetic] "Earth's o'ergazing mountains." Byron.

to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank. The green . . . is rough and overgrown. Sir W. Scott.

Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.

ck (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from ergot or the sclerotium of a fungus growing on rye.

A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produced ergot.

Ergotized rye or other grain. [R.]

Affected with spur, or ergot; as, spurred rye. Spurred corolla (Bot.), a corolla in which there are one or more petals with a spur.

, and on the density or other properties of some substance, for example, water. See Dyne, Erg, Farad, Ohm, Poundal, etc. -- Unit deme (Biol.), a unit of the inferior order or orders of individuality. -- Unit jar (Elec.), a small, insulated Leyden jar, placed between the electrical machine and a larger jar or battery,…

ld strawberry, wild honey. The woods and desert caves, With wild thyme and gadding vine o'ergrown. Milton.

e force into the amount of motion along the direction of the force. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation, Unit of work, under Unit, also Foot pound, Horse power, Poundal, and Erg. Energy is the capacity of doing work . . . Work is the transference of energy from one system to another. Clerk Maxwell.…