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To publish in church for marriage; -- said of both the banns and the persons. Fuller.

icion. They dart away; they wheel askance. Beattie. My palfrey eyed them askance. Landor. Both . . . were viewed askance by authority. Gladstone.

acaulay. Royal assent, in England, the assent of the sovereign to a bill which has passed both houses of Parliament, after which it becomes law.

than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.

he ear; shaped like the ear; auricled. (b) (Zoöl.) Having an angular projection on one or both sides, as in certain bivalve shells, the foot of some gastropods, etc. Auriculate leaf, one having small appended leaves or lobes on each side of its petiole or base.

f a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that when the two fires meet both must go out for lack of fuel.

organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus.

ibrium; esp., a puppet valve which is made to operate easily by the admission of steam to both sides. See Puppet valve. -- Hydrostatic balance. See under Hydrostatic. -- To lay in balance, to put up as a pledge or security. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To strike a balance, to find out the difference between the debit and cred…

A worthless mixture, especially of liquors. Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash. Taylor (Drink and Welcome).

To partake of a dessert after a feast. [Obs.] Where they did both sup and banquet. Cavendish.

An instrument for recording both pressure and temperature, as of the atmosphere.

ch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall.

ghter than water, sinks to 0º in a 10 per cent salt solution and to 10º in pure water. In both cases the graduation, based on the distance between these fundamental points, is continued along the stem as far as desired. Since all the degrees on a Baumé scale are thus equal in length, while those on a specific- gravity…

sp. gr. 1.00, and the 30º-point to sp. gr. 0.85. From these points the scale is extended both ways, all the degrees being of equal length.

A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid. [Obs.] Spenser.

A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass. His spear a bent, both stiff and strong. Drayton.

serpent! That name best befits thee." Milton. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small. Coleridge.

Belonging in common to two; shared by both. Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them. Locke.

Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebræ.

Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens.