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To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon.

ted stanza. You can not. Prof. Wilson. Men were beginning . . . to desiderate for them an actual abode of fire. A. W. Ward.

parts of the ship. -- Deviation of the line of the vertical, the difference between the actual direction of a plumb line and the direction it would have if the earth were a perfect ellipsoid and homogeneous, -- caused by the attraction of a mountain, or irregularities in the earth's density.

A small interval, less than any in actual practice, but used in the mathematical calculation of intervals.

Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual. Assertions for which there is abundant positive evidence are often disbelieved, on account of what is called their improbability or impossibility. J. S. Mill.

he sight, or to the mind; to make manifest. His statement . . . displays very clearly the actual condition of the army. Burke.

To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain. Goldsmith.

The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold. [Written also disseisin.] Blackstone.

ty in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.

meter of the image of the object glass there formed; which measurement, compared with the actual diameter of the glass, gives the magnifying power.

Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance. No other in effect than what it seems. Denham.

Actually; in effect. [Obs.] Fuller.

Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect.

Entity, being, or existence; an actually existing being; also, God, as the Being of Beings.

An actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence.

To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.

The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them.

egrudge. I have seen thee fight, When I have envied thy behavior. Shak. Jeffrey . . . had actually envied his friends their cool mountain breezes. Froude.

thesis of a mean uniform motion, in order to find its true position as resulting from its actual and unequal motion. Absolute equation. See under Absolute. -- Equation box, or Equational box, a system of differential gearing used in spinning machines for regulating the twist of the yarn. It resembles gearing used in e…

of an element which possesses the same chemical value as other elements, as determined by actual experiment and reference to the same standard. Specifically: