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res having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.

The center of mass, inertia, or gravity of a body or system of bodies.

Having the food yolk placed at the center of the ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal. Balfour.

An instrument for drawing lines through a point, or lines converging to a center.

Converging to a center; -- applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center.

A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.

The nucleus or central part of the earth, forming most of its mass; -- disting. from lithosphere, hydrosphere, etc.

A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center. Marshall Hall.

The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra.

See Sentry. [Obs.] Gray.

One of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections.

Of or pertaining to the centumviri, or to a centumvir.

The office of a centumvir, or of the centumviri.

Hundredfold.

To make a hundredfold; to repeat a hundred times. [R.] Howell.

Of or pertaining to a century; as, a centurial sermon. [R.]

Pertaining to, or divided into, centuries or hundreds. [R.] Holland.

An historian who distinguishes time by centuries, esp. one of those who wrote the "Magdeburg Centuries." See under Century. [R.]

A military officer who commanded a minor division of the Roman army; a captain of a century. A centurion of the hand called the Italian band. Acts x. 1.

A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things. [Archaic.] And on it said a century of prayers. Shak.