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An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, ralay, equilibrator, and an induction coil the sparks from which perforate a paper with tiny…

ead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted.

A compound of tellurium with a more positive element or radical; -- formerly called telluret.

he bond] is paid according to the tenor. Shak. Does not the whole tenor of the divine law positively require humility and meekness to all men Spart.

iating, or regarded as being, between two diverse or incompatible substances, natures, or positions.

A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument.

Laid down; absolute or positive, as a law. Dr. H. More.

To place in an elevated position; to give sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt. True image of the Father, whether throned In the bosom of bliss, and light of light. Milton.

To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.

A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.

esenting miles, and having diagonals (usually movable strings) representing the speed and position of various trains.

made to produce great endwise pressure, when any force is applied to bring them into this position.

aint.) To modify, as color, by making it less brilliant or less crude; to modify, as a composition of color, by making it more harmonius. Its thousand hues toned down harmoniusly. C. Kingsley.

That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form. Specifically: --

Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card.

The highest rank; the most honorable position; the utmost attainable place; as, to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school. And wears upon hisbaby brow the round And top of sovereignty. Shak.

The designation of position and direction. B. G. Wilder.

To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.

nge the place or order of; to substitute one for the other of; to exchange, in respect of position; as, to transpose letters, words, or propositions.

cross something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton. The ridges of the fallow field traverse. Hayward. Traverse drill (Mach.), a machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motio…